Word: squashes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tickets for the program are available at the Tennis and Squash Shop, the Coop, or at Rindge Tech on the evening of the show...
...years ago, when Hemenway Gymnasium was a secret Navy experimentation center, the uncoached Varsity squash team stood at the bottom of the Intercollegiate league, losing every single match played. Last year, Coach Jack Barnaby returned, and in three short months turned out a team that defeated every league opponent with the exception of Yale...
Although his players are hampered by the squash coach's traditional bugaboo of inexperience, Barnaby has a large part of his 1946 Varsity back, and feels he has cause for optimism, Captain Adam Foster returns to grace the number one spot, while right behind him are Bill Wightman and George Stevens, playing two and three respectively. Other veterans with a year's Varsity experience behind them are such dependables as Scotty Stewart, Lane McGovern, Milt Heath, and Jim McKittrick, while Foster's brothers Hugh and Henry have both joined him as sure starters. The former was number...
This was substantially the team that waltzed through all league opposition with the exception of Yale last year, and as Barnaby considers experience the essence of a good squash player, he has high hopes for the season ahead. "We should be able to give anybody plenty of trouble," he summarizes...
...Across the Wide Missouri" follows the climax and downward spiral of a gigantic enterprise. Beaver, a million coats and hats, was the lure. From 1832 to 1838 the industry reached a peak in both volume and competition. John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company pulled all the steps to squash its competitors and they all combined against Britain's Hudson's Bay Company. Willful trapping destroyed the beaver, glutted the market and prices dropped. In a short time Astor was left holding the field...