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...Peabody present Holder of the Massachusetts state squash championship title, yesterday defeated J. J. Glessner '25, No. 5 man on the University team, 15-3, 15-7, 15-9, in this year's state tournament...
...matches of the state squash tournament, which will be played today, are of interest to University squash fans. G. D. Debevoise '26 will play Channing Wakefield 3L at 2.30 o'clock and C. C. Peabody will play J. J. Glessner '25 at 5.30 o'clock...
...DuBois '24 defeated F. S. Kellogg '06, 11-15, 15-10, 15-6, 16-14, yesterday afternoon in the preliminaries of the Massachusetts state squash tournament, thereby creating another upset in squash circles...
Like tennis, squash raquets was introduced to this country from England; and like tennis, it has not been immediately accepted, but has slowly grown more and more popular. Tennis, when it achieved general recognition in the colleges, immediately became the most important minor sport. It shook off, to a great extent, the connotation of pink teas and cookies; it overcame the objection to the expense and location of courts, and it gained major sport letters for its champions. This is the road which its winter cousin has before it, and on which it has made a good start...
...chief disadvantage of squash has been the lack of intercollegiate competition. No other college has organized an official squash racquets team, and only a few colleges possess any courts. Many of these, such as Yale, have lost themselves in the blind alley of squash tennis, or have suffered from poorly-constructed courts, and hence have not fully adopted the game. In New York, largely due to the efforts of certain professionals, squash tennis is the more important of the two; while in Chicago a still different game of "racquets" is a strong competitor. But gradually, men who have played...