Word: tennised
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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However, according to varsity coach Jack Barnaby, this may not be the case for long. Under the tutelage of new squash and tennis coach Ed Serrues, Amherst has been rebuilding its racquet sports with notable success. Last spring their tennis varsity defeated the Crimson for the first time in history...
Charles W. Medick, one of the nation's top table-tennis referees, smiles tolerantly when he hears the cry familiar to his trade: "Whatsa matter, you got no eyes?" Medick is blind, from an accident in infancy. But Medick, a 36-year-old Los Angeles X-ray darkroom technician...
Last week Chuck Medick began tuning up at local tournaments for the National Table Tennis Championships at Inglewood, Calif, in March, where he hopes to break his own record of scoring 54 matches at table tennis' biggest event. Medick's refereeing is uncanny, although he cannot quite explain...
Medick can tell almost exactly where the ball lands on the table. He can tell whether the player hits a backhand or a forehand, whether the stroke is a drive or a chop. He is unbothered by slight deafness in one ear, and his only problem is judging the service...
In some of his funniest poems Betjeman is given to adolescent admiration of female tennis players ("Pam, I adore you, Pam, you great big mountainous sports girl"). He cries to be a sports girl's racket, pressed to her breast or flying in the sunlit air. But Betjeman is...