Word: sph
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week, the galleries were packed as two of the game's fiercest competitors had at each other in the finals of the National Singles championship. The favorite in private betting (at 5 to 3) was Samuel Purdy Howe III, 27, a Social Register Philadelphian who wears shirts monogrammed SPH in and learned the game as a child at Pennsylvania's exclusive Merion Cricket Club. His opponent in the finals: Victor Niederhoffer, 22, son of a former New York City policeman, who attended Brooklyn's Abraham Lincoln High School and had never seen a squash court until...