Word: squashes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seattleites were pleased but slightly puzzled by Soviet Naval Lieutenant Nikolai G. Redin. The dark, handsome, 29-year-old lieutenant did his work as a Soviet Purchasing Commission liaison officer without a word about Marx, Engels, commissars or strikes. He was polite, played squash, drank bourbon and once enlivened a New Washington Hotel stag party by dropping to his heels and doing the "kazatski." After he had been in Seattle a while (he came in 1942), some people who had been a little uppish about Russians began to think better of them...
Yale's powerful squash team trounced the Crimson Varsity 8 to 1 Saturday on the victors,' home courts. Bob Rowe, playing number nine, emerged from the debacle with the only Crimson victory of the afternoon as the squad ended its first formal season since the beginning of the war on a sour note...
Rowe won 3 to 2, while Johnny Knowles, Bob Young, Bob Clarkson, Murray Levin, Milt Heath, Captain Charley Mulcahey, Bill Mayleas, and Dave Shephered, appearing in that order, dropped their matches. Watching from the sidelines was Glen Shively, Yale's Intercollegiate Squash Champion, who expects to be inducted into the Army this week...
...Varsity squash men were yesterday afternoon handed a 3 to 2 defeat by the Harvard Club of Boston at the University courts. Newly elected captain Charley Mulcahey and Milt Heot won their matches, while Johnny Knowles, Bob Young, and Bill Mayles were turned back. The team invades New Haven on March 16 for their final contest of the year...
...week in Hartford, Conn., the first national championship since 1942 was fought out on the spic-&-span, allwood courts of the Hartford Golf Club. Defending Champion Charlie Brinton, 26, is a Philadelphian, and an ex-G.I. So is his No. 1 rival, lanky Hunter Lott, 31. (Philadelphia, where squash racquets got its start in the U.S., is still the game's top center.) Both came through the prelims easily, clashed in the finals. Lott won the first game, but then began to tire. Charlie Brinton still had his old mixture of low killers and tantalizing drop shots...