Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Then he chuckled, then laughed outright and added, "Wall...
...What are they doing, Captain?" inquired innocent me, and as he returned the binoculars to my keeping he said, as a twinkle lit up his cold, steel-like eyes, "Wall son, they're just rubbing each others knees...
Squash. Red walled court; racquet like a tennis racquet but smaller, rounder; ball like a tennis ball but heavier, faster. Before young Harry Wolf got on the court with Rowland Haines to play for the National Amateur Squash Tennis Championship, Rowland Dufton, the professional at the New York Athletic Club, taught him a special stroke to use in that one match -a stroke which Dufton said would win for him. It was a drive straight into the front wall corners that skidded off the back wall and dropped dead. "Mix it up with a soft game," Dufton advised him. "Hyde...
...stroke. He whaled the ball the way he did out of doors last year when he was playing on the Williams tennis team. Sometimes he got Haines in close and hit a terrific drive, and as Haines jumped back for it the ball hit the corner, skidded along the wall and dropped dead. Haincs's half-volleys became defensive, and young Wolf, playing as though he could not make a mistake, took the fourth game, the fifth, the match, the title. Score...
...more tennis-players in Paris than drunkards in England. Complicated then, it is even more complicated now by centuries of innovation. The court is longer, wider than a-lawn tennis court, a sagging net strung across the middle; a roofed gallery or "penthouse" near the ceiling, running around three walls, sloping from ten and a half to seven feet from the floor; an opening in the righthand corner of the end wall on the receiving side called the "grille"; an opening in the end wall on the service side, under the penthouse, called the "dedans." Players face each other...