Word: squash
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...record in long-distance travelling may be set if W. P. Dixon '25 and possibly other members of the University squash team carry out their plans to enter the Canadian squash championships, which begin on February 6. As the University's matches with Yale take place the next day, the Crimson squash players will have to spend two successive nights on the train. After playing their first round matches in Montreal, they will have to return here the next day to play with Yale, and then journey back to Montreal in time to play their second matches on February...
...rumor that the University squash team would enter the national championships at Buffalo on February 21, 22, and 23 was denied yesterday by the H. A. A. authorities. This decision is due to a rule in the statute books which forbids the financing of trips of minor sports teams outside of New England...
Also any hopes that either W. P. Dixon '25 or G. D. Debevoise '26 might be able to journey to Buffalo as representatives of the Boston district in the individual tournament were set at naught by a recent decision of the National Squash Committee, placing the University in a new squash district with Lincoln's Inn. Formerly the University was in the same district with the Harvard Club and the other metropolitan teams, but the new ruling does away with the right of individual Crimson players to join the Boston team in its trip to Buffalo...
...University squash team A will meet the Harvard Club of Boston this afternoon in an important league A match in the latter's courts. All the matches will be at three o'clock except the Rawlins-Hardwick and Upjohn-Watson matches, which will begin at four o'clock...
...Freshmen are the only ones who seem to show much interest in the University squash tournament which started Monday, according to announcements made yesterday by the management. In fact, so few matches have been played that the authorities may be forced to default many players in pairs, in order to start the tournament well on its way. In the College tournament only four-fifths of the first round and half of the second round have been played off, while in the Business, Law, and Graduate Schools the first round is only partially completed. All of the seeded players have come...