The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-02
NEW CLUBS IN PLAY
FOR SQUASH TITLE
Army and Navy and d. X. E.
Teams Join Metropolitan
Group.
by SAMUEL J. BRooKMAN:

Having been assured of q plentiful
supply of satisfactory balls, the Ma
tionai Squash Tennis Association has
gone ahead with its plans for the most
active season in its history. Follow
Ing meeting of the executive COM
mittee the annual dates for the metro
politan and national tournaments were
announced yesterday and the list shows
a number of new clubs in the field for
squash tennis honors. Locally the Army
and Navy Club and the d. X. e. Club
are the newcomers. Both will have
teams in the class p metropolitan team
championship. In which the other con-
testants will be the Harvard Club.
Yale Club, Princeton Club, Columbia
Club and Crescent Athletic Club. In
class A Harvard Club, Yale Club,
Princeton Club. Columbia Club land
Crescent Athletic Club will be the team
tournament competitors.
Some time ago the national associa-
ton was confronted by a problem that
threatened to curtail squash tennis &C.
tivity very seriously. They had ex-
perienced all sorts Of difficulty last
season with four piece ball that could
not withstand hard knocks and which
with an internal pressure OF forty
pounds collapsed as a rule after few
minutes play. The lone manufactures
OF SQUASH tennis balls was approached
on the subject Of turning out two
piece product that would lessen con-
siderably the chances Of the ball col
lapsing. For a long time the manu-
facturer doubted whether he would be
able to turn out any balls at all, mucn
less the two piece ball, which required
the installation of new machinery, but
he agreed finally to entertain the
proposition, and the ball that Is being
nade now Is said to be satisfactory In
every way.
Tho competitive season Is TO start
within a week. In the opening match
Harvard Club meets Princeton Club on
the Yale Club courts next Tuesday. II
will mark the start OF the Class
team championship which
will have weekly matches up to FEB
ruary %. Class A starts November 70
and will wind up February 10. In the
meantime four open tournaments VIII
be played. the first being the ran
ginning November 20, the second the
annual national handicap at the Har-
ward Club during the week OF December
II the third the national Class d cham
pionship at the Squash Club during the
week of January 22 and the last the
national open championship at the Yale
Club beginning February 5.
In the metropolitan events teams VIII
play seven men a side and the tourna-
nents In both classes will be round
robin. home and home affairs. No player
Included in the national ranking of 1920
viii be allowed to compete in Glass B.
which means practically that the various
clubs will have to develop new Class Is
men THIS season. Auguste j. Cordier OF
the Yale Club, the present nationai
champion, will be in charge OF the
tournament arrangements.
Just over the effects of an operation TOT
Cordier will not be In
shape to play until late in the season
and may not be able to defend MS tue.
Reports have come to the association
Of great interest in the Middle West In
SQUASH tennis, and indications are that
before the close of the winter many new
clIba will have been added to the ma
tional membership. The latest out or
town club to join the ranks Is the en-
cinnati University Club. which has just
had three courts constructed.
The schedule of metropolitan team
matches follows:
CLASS A.
November 26-yale at Harvard, Columbia
at Princeton. December 2-Princeton az ieie,
al Princeton, Columbia at Crescent Decem-
Der ie-Yale at Columbia. Princeton at Cres-
cent December 23--Crescent at Yale. Har-
vard AZ Columbia. January i3-Yale at
CRESCENT. Columbia at Harvard. January 20
Princeton at Yale, Harvard at Crescent.
2T-Princeton at Harvard. Crescent
AZ Columbia. February 3-Columbia at Yale,
Crescent Mt Princeton. February lV-Har-
vard at Yale, Princeton at Columbia.
CLASS d.
November e--fIarvard at Princeton. NO
vember l6-Yale at Harvard. Princeton at
Crescent at Army and Navy. NO
veulber 23-Columbia at Harvard. Princeton
AZ Yale, Army and Navy at ID. Is. Il. NO
ven,ber 30-Harvard at Crescent, Yale at Co
umbia. Princeton at ID. X. e. December T.
n X. Il. nj Harvard. Crescent ut Yale. Army
nd NAVY at Columbia. December i4-Army
md Navy at Yale. Princeton at Crescent. ID.
X e nj Columbia. December 21-Harvard
AZ Army and Navy, ID. X. Z. at Yale, CO.
nmbia nj Crescent. December 2S-Princeton
AZ Army and Navy, Crescent at d. X. II.
january 4-Iiarvard at Princeton. January
If--Ynle at Harvard, Columbia at Princeton,
Crescent Mt Army and Navy. January IS
Columbia Mt Harvard. Princeton at Yale,
rmy and Navy at u. X. r. January 90
Harvard at Crescent. Yale Mt Columbia.
Frebruary I'D. X. f. ut Harvard. Crescent
Al Yale. Army and Navy at Columbia. Feb
ruary s-Army and Navy Mt Yale, Princeton
AZ Crescent, ID. X. Il. at Columbia. Febru-
,ry IT'D. X. u. at Yale. Columbia Mt Cres-
cent. Harvard at Army and Navy. February
at Army and Navy, Crescent at
D. X. r. 49,