New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-01-22
How Game Born in the British Army Not So Long ACC
Has Found Favor with Racquet Wielders
the World Over

,ssn cid woman. who had been taken
".,,ess a match al squash. who de-
n tho game as two men getting into
81 ..r bedroom and batting a ball around
,,,r tennis ragguets until they were
She saw the picture somewhat I'M
l-..,,srv Suu the likeness was there,
,,1rh added that hits off the game
W. ,s,,i-abre exactness Squash, in the
It, of Eustace Miles. the famous
e-.,ss rlayer Of all styles OF racquet
- -. is the ideal OF tabloid games devised
.-,~ding the maximum amount or
-, exercise IN the shortest possible
80 and with the least outlay as TO space
and apparatus
~. co many of the forms OF racquet
che raroaI0cy Of squash IS shrOuded
nc oss-uritr Yet. like the game OF
..,-,st,se-inyeuted IN 1873 by Major
- WinEreId. or the British army.
~ .bs fcli-r, Of an outlying post in
-. and which has grown 20 the world
"a. ,s,r tsnuis-squash seems TO be a
--,,,s child NJ the English army. The
,..il, anil routine 81 life in far away posts
- me frontier Of India had given polo
"a lawn tennis % lovers OF active pas
..-,ss before squash appeared.
,-.o-d,ng 90 The legends 81 the game,
-r,,a IS comparatively new, the absence
rar0uets court led 10 the impro-
,,t,r NJ soile Il the service targets
- I'm sha-psrooting practice. The tar
-. we're az wood. approximately eighteen
-, .4es~s Doc 'he makeshift one target
,,s used for the front wall, the other for
49, hack while The sides were formed OF
co.. targets ea,n The rules were modined
.a.r the newer conditions, with the result
cha, the Young commissioned officers built
an mos, spirited game that is gradually
.,-.irr recognition because " the many
,rers,5 qualities rhat have been developed
Long with lis growth. Even so, squash
IA. mo-, vet reached the dignity Of a stan
s,rsizs,ion of IFS rules for play nor ALSO
nm. dimensions as to the court.
In This city the number of squash courts
81. ,r-gart,y increasing. II Is essentially
D, indoor game and II is most in vogue
t-an December through 20 April. Its adap-
,s5T-v 10 the city residence OF fair proper
tons 70 me space that may be taken in
ire private stable or garage. and which
NAV 10 SET aside IN the houses Of the lead
i1r cubs has served 10 popuIarize squash.
August Belmont built court in his house
IN East 34th street, which his sons. August.
IT.. and RAYMOND. have used. The former =
VIE as Miss Alice de GOicouria, played the
game down al the Meadow Club, at South
amr,on. Long Island. Howard Gould in
sailed court i'm his stable, and there IL
also one a. Georgian court. the New Jersey
residence Of George Gould, where guests OF
ne occasional house parties may play.
The courts Of the Harvard Club, the CO.
hnra University club, the Princeton CLUB
and the Biiou Heights Casino, Of Brooklyn,
lave done much toward giving the game
rs greatest impetus For several seasons
these clubs have engaged in a league cham
rcnshfp series % home-and-home team
matches that have created considerable in
's-ss Then the individual championships
have brought out stirring playing, tor
smash is no game for the weaKing. Dr.
Alfred Stu.man. ID, holds the titular hOnors
a, the Harvard club Lyle Evans Mahan,
so- o. .aDtain Mahan. Of the United States
navy IS the Columbia Club champion. So
ne list goes. for II is notable that the
Younger generation Of professional men,
and those whose ways OF business bring
,-er under the strain Of the nerve-rack-
ing financial district find in squash the
srtdgte that keeps them vigorously fresh
ir mind and BODY.
Keanlg alive TO test the value Of same