Word: squash
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when enough women took up the game to make competition exciting, Eleo (as she is known in swish circles) won the first national squash racquets championship for women. The following year, she held famed Professional Walter Kinsella, world's squash tennis champion from 1914-26, to a tight score in an exhibition match. This year, at 58, white-haired, lithe Eleonora Sears is still going strong. Last week, in the Atlantic Coast squash championship (at Atlantic City), first big tournament of the season, she reached the semi-finals in a field of top-flight players, most of whom were...
Although Eleo Sears is the Grand Old Girl of squash, she can still tire out the average youngster. One morning last week, when she had no match scheduled, she played nine straight games with hard-hitting, 20-year-old Hope Knowles (who later won the tournament). Five games is enough to wind most women squash players, but Eleo said she was not even warmed...
Before she took up squash, Spinster Sears was a topflight tennis player, won the national doubles title four times (with...
Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman twice, with Molla Bjurstedt Mallory twice). She has won 240 cups-mostly at tennis, squash and horse-show jumping...
Born in Boston in 1901, Painter Hoffman began drawing as soon as he could hold a pencil. He studied art in Boston and Europe, now lives in a crowded Manhattan studio with a squint-eye view of Central Park. For recreation, he plays squash, second fiddle in an amateur chamber-music ensemble that meets in his studio every Wednesday evening...