Word: squashed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the last week-end the University's teams entered in minor sports succeeded in winning two swimming meets, two polo games, two wrestling meets, a basketball game, and nine squash matches...
...inter-House football series, on Friday, November 21, and which the Dunster House players bore to a glorious victory of seven to six over the Lowellians. The other will bear the silver loving cup which is to be engraved with the names of the winners of the annual Dunster squash tournament. Arrangements are to be made for the placing of other trophies that the members of Dunster House may win. A permanent trophy case will be built in the dining-room sometime in the future...
According to the lists in the University Squash Courts, the following members of the University squash squad are competing in the semifinals for the fall tournament which is now in progress...
...Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Since Harry Cowles forsook the Harvard Club of Boston and went to Cambridge, William J. Bingham has had difficulty in providing enough courts; and now M. I. T., under the direction of "Jack" Summers, sometime professional at the Union Boat Club, has become squash-conscious. At B. C., B. U. and other places, the development will be the same when the youngsters realize what they are missing...
...Squash racquets has many advantages. It costs little. It can be played in a small space. In half an hour a man gets all the running-around that is good for him. A professional has called it "the most cruel" of all sports, but it is enjoyable and can be geared down to the capabilities of young and old. It provides more fun and exercise in less space at lower expense than any other game. The wonder is that it has been unappreciated so many years...