Word: squash
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Anybody in the U. S. with a $1.98 racquet and a pair of sneakers can find a lawn tennis game in season. But the four indoor ball-and-racquet games-court tennis, racquets, squash racquets and squash tennis-are still the exclusive pastimes of folks on the sunnier side of the railroad tracks. In all the U. S., for example, there are perhaps fewer than 500 persons who have ever taken a cut at a court tennis ball. Racquets players have been so few that one ball maker, a man named Jeffries Mailings, until his death 20 years ago, made...
...Squash, Wrestling...
Kirkland got off to a flying start last fall by sharing top honors in the football league with the Winthrop Puritans. After that the Deacons piled up an amazing succession of seconds and an occasional first or third. Only in two sports, squash and hockey, did they find the going really tough, with their racquetmen and pucksters ending seventh and eighth respectively...
With practice beginning today in the Indoor Athletic Building, both the Freshman and the Varsity tennis squads are now preparing for this spring's season. A meeting was held yesterday in the Linden Street squash courts for all Yardling and Varsity team and managerial candidates...
Coach Barnaby's racquetmen completed their schedule without dropping a single intercollegiate match and ended up in a tie for second place in the Massachusetts Squash Racquets Association, higher than ever before...