Word: squashes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Squash racquets-which women play to keep thin, and old men to keep young-was still strictly a young man's game in tournament play...
Inter-House basketball has opened the current House athletics season, with volley-ball, squash, and swimming competitions due to start within the next two weeks...
...squash team edged out Middlesex School Wednesday afternoon winning three out of five matches on the Linden Street courts. Dave Shepherd, Jim McKittrick, and Bob Dodson supplied wins, while Milt Heath and Charlie Mulcahey came out on the short end of their scores...
...their first regular meet of the season, Coach Jaakko Mikkola's cindermen crushed Exeter by a score of 59 to 22 on the loser's field Saturday. At the same time, the squash team lost to Dartmouth, and the J.V. matmen contested Andover unsuccessfully at Harvard...
Racquets, fastest of all games played on foot, nearly twice as fast as squash racquets, is also one of the rarest. In the U.S., where a few hundred play it, only eleven racquets courts exist. Game requirements: a four-walled cement court about twice the length of a squash court; a hard ball (the size of a ping-pong ball, but the consistency of a baseball, it shoots and caroms from wall to wall so rapidly that a marker is needed to call "play" after each fair shot); a supply of racquets, since an average player breaks a racquet...