Word: tennised
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With material that Coach Jack Barnaby calls "really solid and strong," the varsity tennis team opened indoor practice this week in preparation for its trip South during spring recess.
The court, in the fashion of the game, resembled a medieval courtyard; shedlike roofs slanted down along three sides. A huge net drooped limply across the floor. The low walls were pierced by openings that looked like windows in ancient outbuildings from which spectators peered out like court nobles in...
Court tennis has changed little since it was played by monks in French monasteries some 700 years ago. and the court itself still reproduces many of the original hazards. The opening in the wall called the dedans might have been a water trough, and the player who can hit a...
Rich Man's Game. Court tennis in the U.S. is restricted largely to the wealthy. There are just seven courts in the whole country, only one private one-built by Payne Whitney in 1915 on his Long Island estate at an estimated cost of $250,000. But its adherents...
"Nordy" Knox comes from one of the U.S.'s most sports-minded families. Father Seymour Knox, board chairman of Buffalo's Marine Trust Co., was a ranking squash player, holds a seven-goal polo rating, combined with his two sons to form a powerful polo team. Nordy began...