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Word: tennised (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Of all the court games, squash tennis is the only one made in the U. S. A. Boston-born in 1890, it has since been squeezed out there and almost everywhere else by simpler & slower squash racquets, nowadays is largely the hobby of a fairly small group of players in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Courts & Racquets | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

The Babe Ruth of squash tennis is the New York Athletic Club's 31-year-old Harry Florian Wolf, who has held the so-called national amateur championship for nine years. Last week, on the slick white courts of Manhattan's Harvard Club, Slugger Wolf pasted his way...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Courts & Racquets | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

Parent of all the racquet games is court tennis, which Nausicaa and her maidens reputedly played by batting a ball with their hands. For the last 700 years it has been played with a lopsided, gut-strung racquet that looks as if it might have been left out in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Courts & Racquets | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

What keeps the average sedentary young executive from toning up at court tennis is mainly that there are only twelve courts in the U. S., and a proper court costs some $100,000, must be plastered with a secret British cement apocryphally said to be made from silt from the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Courts & Racquets | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

A racquets court costs only $50,000, has no royal recesses, is a 60-by-30-ft., four-wall court in which its few devotees play the fastest racquet game of all. The bats have small circular heads with long shafts, cost about $8, break at an alarming rate. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Courts & Racquets | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

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