Word: squash
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Besides a prize essay contest tournaments in tennis, billiards, pool, squash, bridge and chess were held for members...
Triumphs in two hockey series and a baseball series account for the University major victories, while the Elis have taken the palm in football, track and rowing, with one football game undecided in a scoreless tie. Two wins in squash, basketball and cross-country, and single successes in tennis, golf and soccer make up the Crimson total of minor honors, while Yale has twice won the series in wrestling, fencing, and indoor and outdoor polo. In addition to the lead that this summary gives to Harvard, the University has for the last two years obtained the laurels in the Intercollegiate...
...from a large field of colleges, the Crimson forces scored indirect triumphs over the Blue team, which loomed each year as a titular threat. Winter minor sports honors for 1926 and 1927 have in each case gone to Yale by a margin of three sports to two. The Harvard squash and basketball players have emerged triumphant in their engagements with the Elis, while in wrestling, fencing and indoor polo the Yale grapplers, swordsmen and riders have prevailed
...Yorker, weekly smart-chart, last week published an anecdote about a gentleman with a familiar but "unplaceable" face. The gentleman had entered a Manhattan sport goods store and inquired of the clerk: "What do you charge for blowing up old squash tennis balls that have gone...
...never heard of its being done, called in the proprietor for consultation. The customer advised the proprietor that he thought it could be accomplished by the same machine that was employed in inflating new balls. The proprietor admitted the possibility, and after due thought about the price of new squash balls (50c) set a price of ten cents for each reinflated ball...