Word: squashed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more matches in the inter-House squash tournament were played Tuesday afternoon in the A and D leagues. In the A league, Leverett defeated Adams, 4-1; Dunster defeated Eliot, 3-2; and Lowell defeated Winthrop, 5-0. In the D league, Leverett again defeated Adams, 4-1; Eliot defeated Dunster, 4-1; and Lowell defeated Winthrop...
Four matches were played yesterday afternoon in the B league inter-House squash tournament. John Todd 2L. W. J. Bender 4G, and V. M. Haughton '33 won hard matches to bring Adams victory over Dunster, 3-2. Kirkland defeated Leverett, 3-2, in another exciting match. Eliot won out over Lowell, 4-1, and Winthrop defeated Phillips Brooks...
When British women dress for squash racquets they do not wear shorts, like Americans, but pleated skirts or, rarely, trousers. There are other differences. British squash racquets courts are 2½ ft. wider; the ball is more lively; games are to 9 points instead of 15; only the hander-out (server) scores points. Because squash racquets (not squash tennis, which is a U. S. invention and played nowhere else except in Cuba) is a family game in England, British women have played more, now play better than Americans. Practicing against men has taught them that the most effective shots...
...were still in the draw. Next day, the only American left was Ruth Hall of Merion, runner-up for the title last year, winner in 1931. sister of J. Gilbert Hall, onetime 13th ranking U. S. lawn tennis player. Against Susan Noel, 20-year-old British champion who learned squash racquets from her father when she was so young she does not remember it. Miss Hall began with the fatal mistake of trying to outdrive her opponent. After losing the first game, 15-5. she tried playing soft shots in the corners, managed to win a game...
...Detroit last week, Beekman Pool of New York retained the title he won from his brother J. Lawrence Pool a year ago by beating Neil Sullivan of Philadelphia in the final of the men's National Squash Racquets Championship...