Word: squashes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Snapping back strongly after a long exam-period lull, the Varsity squash team smashed out two quick wins last week, 8-1 over Amherst on Friday followed by a decisive 5-1 shellacing of Trinity the next day. A perfect slate was marred only by two defeats suffered by Adam Foster, playing number one, who was set back by the top man of both opposing squads...
Racquets is played on a court of sweat-proof concrete twice the size of a squash court. Even before the war, a court cost $50,000 to build. One London firm has the secret formula for the non-sweating cement, and trusts no one but its own masons with the mixing of it. The balls add to the game's speed and cost: they are golf-ball size but made like baseballs-tightly wound cotton thread covered with leather. They shoot around the cell-like court so fast that experts judge the ball's speed not only...
...TIME Varsity Basketball Princeton Princeton 8:30 Varsity Hockey Army West Points Varsity Swimming Army Indoor Athletic Bldg. 8:00 Varsity Track Army and Princeton West Point Varsity Track B.A.A. Games Boston Garden 8:00 Varsity Wrestling Army Indoor Athletic Bldg. 3:00 Varsity Fencing Amherst Amherst Varsity "A" Squash Amherst Amherst Junior Varsity Basketball Cambridge Y.M.C.A. Indoor Athletic bldg. 8:30 Freshman Basketball Newman Prep School Indoor Athletic Bldg. 7:00 Freshman Hockey Exeter Exeter Freshman Swimming Exeter Exeter Freshman Wrestling Exeter Exeter Freshman Fencing Exeter Exeter Freshman "C" Squash Middlesex Here Skling (all teams) USEASA meet North Conway...
...Squash competitions will also get under way again after a month-long lapse, as the Leverett and Winthrop "B" squads clash on Tuesday...
Under the direction of Adolph Samborski '26, play will be resumed in basketball and squash, and the swimming league will add its scores to the grand total of each House...