Word: squash
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Showing the same coolness which has always characterized his game, H. N. Rawlins '27 of New York, gained the National Squash Racquets Singles Championship from M. P. Baker '25, of Boston, on the courts of the Pennsylvania Athletic Club, Philadelphia, yesterday afternoon, in three straight games, 15-12, 15-13, 16-15. Both finalists were captains of the University squash teams in their Senior years. As the score indicates, the match was close, but Rawlins always had the edge...
...closest matches which the National Squash Racquets Singles Championship tournament, now in progress at Philadelphia, has yet produced, J.F. Pool '28, captain of the University squash team, yesterday bowed to the greater experience and steadiness of H.N. Rawlins '27, leader of last year's championship aggregation. The score of the match, which went to five games before a decision was reached, is an indication of how closely each point was contested. It is as follows: 13-15, 18-15, 6-15, 16-14, 15-7. The triumph places Rawlins in the final round of the tournament. The victor...
...very end of the period and then under the deft ministrations of an expert hired tutor. When they are supposed to be reading about Laertes and the nebular hypothesis and Socratian argument they will be expected to be doing so, not keeping social engagements in Boston or playing squash and hand ball...
Rallying to the defense of the national squash team championship, held by Harvard for the past three years, the University racquetmen leave at 1 o'clock today for Philadelphia, where the title tournament is scheduled for tomorrow, Sunday, and Monday...
Coach H. L. Cowles concedes his team only an outside chance to take the national team crown. A new ruling of the National Squash Racquets Association provides that at least one member of each team must play in the singles, and that this man may not represent his team in the team matches. This rule, depriving the University aggregation of its captain, may seriously damage its chances in the team tournament...