Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Swart little Angelo Trulio started to play one-wall handball five years ago. He was so good that he took up the harder four-wall game, beat Alfred Banuet for the national championship last year. Last week little Trulio was favored to keep his title in a cream-colored court of the Lake Shore Athletic Club in Chicago. His surprise came in the semifinals, against Albert Charles ("Hobey") Hobelmann of Baltimore, a player who had lost in the national semi-finals for the last six years. They made a preposterous contrast in the court-Trulio with the well-muscled physique...
...named Casey, disgusted because there were no courts in the U. S., built one in Brooklyn in 1885; in 1887 he won,11-to-6, against the Irish champion, John Lawlor, a best-of-21-game series for the world's championship and a $1,000 sidebet. One-wall handball started in 1900. Cheaper, more convenient and less subtle, it is more popular in the East than the older game. Squash handball, played with squash rackets on a handball court, is popular in California. For persons too lazy or slow to be good at singles, which can cause expert...
...amateur championship for the second year; 7 & 5 against Jack Toomer of Jacksonville in the final; after taking the medal with 65-72-137 and tying the course record with a 64 in the quarterfinals; at Pinehurst, N. C. C Haligonian, 45-ft. schooner owned and sailed by Houston Wall of Tampa, Fla.: the fourth annual St. Petersburg-to-Havana race, for the President Machado Cup; in 90 hr. 58 min. 45 sec. elapsed time...
...measured. The University recognized the existence of a better test years ago, and accordingly shifted the requirements for honor degrees to conspicuous achievement in Divisional examinations and honors theses. Phi Beta Kappa, with a conservatism born of long tradition, has until now refused to read the handwriting on the wall. The approval of the new system, while allowing the maintenance in a restricted form of an undergraduate nucleus, may well mean a new birth of life and vigor for the Society as a group of graduate intellectuals...
...long rectangular square in Naples, a crowd which fills the place solidly from wall to wall has been waiting for hours. In spite of the burning sun, the enthusiasm has never abated, and the low hum of the densely packed mob is steadily increasing in volume. There is a stir on the small balcony of the building at the extreme end of the plaza, a short, black-shirted, uniformed figure steps briskly to the balustrade, and the low hum swells instantly to a tumultuous roar which becomes ever louder as the minutes wear by. On the balcony the little...