Word: tournament
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the College tournament last fall and from practices new in progress, Barnaby has some idea of where the talent lies; Ted Backe '48, who ranked twelfth among the National Juniors before the war seems to be a likely contender for the number one slot, while Max Tufts '45 and Bill Wightman '49, captain and number two man on the squash team respectively, also seem sure of posts on the team...
...Foster '45, of Eliot House and Charles River, Massachusetts, is the squash captain for next year. One of the strongest men on the team, Foster finished the campaign by downing Princeton's ace, Longman, and then advancing as far as the quarter-final round in the Inter-collegiate Tournament at Dartmouth last week...
...amateur tennis opponents before him. How would the Davis Cup hero do on a slippery board floor? He wasn't sure himself. Last week, in the U.S. indoor championships in Manhattan's Seventh Regiment Armory, he put himself to the test. It was his first indoor tournament...
...Talbert. Kramer's return of service made the big serve look less sizeable. As effortlessly as if he were playing table tennis, Kramer kept ramming Falkenburg's cannonball right back up the cannon, and walked away with the match, 6-1, 6-2, 6-2. Throughout the tournament, Kramer never lost a game on his own service. By the time he had lashed over the last ace, veteran galleryites were nodding in sage agreement: the way that boy was playing now, nobody in today's world could beat him-amateur or professional, indoors...
...with 136-pounder Frank Trinkle and Captain Don Louria at 165. Both experienced men who have hot-and-cold days, Trinkle is in a class where competition is relatively weak this year while Louria is in one of the better weights. Louria has lost to two men in the tournament; Trinkle, three...