Word: racquets
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...clubman, retired wine importer. Last week his book, issued in 1928 when nobody cared, enjoyed high sales. Backgammoner Nicholas himself, urbane, quiet-spoken, contradicted his own contention that there is no skill in the game by winning, in one afternoon, 35 games of backgammon in a club (New York Racquet & Tennis) where sometimes 1,000 games are played a day. Writes he: "It is unnecessary to preserve silence, always so depressing. The disturbing presence of the fair sex . . . is never unwelcome. Where there is no concentration, there can be no distraction...
...last week-end's contests the University team C defeated Newton Centre 3 to 2, the Freshman C players won 3 to 2 from the Tennis and Racquet Club, and the 1933 D players downed M.I.T...
Clarence Napier Bruce, Lord Aberdare of Duffryn, who is one of the best racquets players in the world, has never managed to win the Court Tennis Championship of England, but he went after Frank Frazier coolly last week in the Racquet & Tennis Club, Manhattan, for the U.S. title. More experienced, Lord Aberdare out-placed him and Frazier, coming in close to get the Englishman's cut-shots, netted repeatedly. After being set-point three times, Lord Aberdare won the first set 6-3, took the next quickly, then began to net shots on his own forehand. But Frazier...
Squash. Red walled court; racquet like a tennis racquet but smaller, rounder; ball like a tennis ball but heavier, faster. Before young Harry Wolf got on the court with Rowland Haines to play for the National Amateur Squash Tennis Championship, Rowland Dufton, the professional at the New York Athletic Club, taught him a special stroke to use in that one match -a stroke which Dufton said would win for him. It was a drive straight into the front wall corners that skidded off the back wall and dropped dead. "Mix it up with a soft game," Dufton advised him. "Hyde...
...Racquets. A court 60 ft. by 30 ft. with four black cement walls; no net; long-handled, small-headed racquet; ball like a little baseball, covered with kid. Stanley Mortimer and Clarence C. Pell, who play together as a doubles team (TIME, Feb. 10) played each other once again in the finals of the National Singles at the Boston Tennis and Racquet Club. Figured as a sure loser because of his poorer showing this year, and because he had a harder struggle to get in the finals, Mortimer made only one point in the second game, four in the third...