Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-11-15
SQUASH RACQUETS
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Plans for Approaching Indoor
Season Completed by Phila.
deIphia Club Chairman

Plans for the approaching indoor
season. which opens the last week OF
this month, have been completed BY
the Sports Committee Of the Philadel.
phia Racquet Club. of which Joseph W.
Wear is chairman. The usual handi.
cap competitions at racquets. court
tennis and squash racquets, winding up
with the national court tennis doubles
championship. are scheduled to be de.
, ciled here during the week OF March -.
lnterclub squash racquets will set
the ball rolling Wednesday. November
~. Matches will be played weekly
until February and this struggle viii
be followed BY the State and national
tournaments for the singles squash
Championship. the title now held by
stanley ". Pearson. captain Of the
The battle for the worlds open rae.
1nets, crown between Jack soutar. OF
Charles William, Of England. former
champion. now seeking to regain his
laurels. will begin at the Philadelphia
Racquet Club Saturday. December 2.
when the first half Of the grapple will
be staged. It will end Saturday. De.
cember D. at the New York Racquet
and Tennis Club when the final hall
will be fought out.
Matches Start January %
Because of the Christmas and New
Year holidays no outside events are
scheduled until January ~. when thu
hrst OF the annual interclty racquet.
matches win be- put on here between
Philadelphia and New York teams.
The return clash is listed for the
New York Racquet Club the following
Saturday.
AS Il preliminary to these contest,
the usual handicap Journeys mt rae.
4uets In both singles and doubles vii
D" played at the local club, the firss
during the week of January S and Tn,
latter during the week of January l3
The interclub squash racauet
matches will be run of weekly durin,
december and January. and the squasi
singles handicap tourney Is slated fo
the Racquet Club during the first weel
In January. with the singles champion
ship competition due the following week
The court tennis enthusiasts will b
the hrst to get under way at the Rae
quet Club. They start competition 10
the W. ]. Hallahan Cups during tn
week Of December 4. The usua lhandi
cap tournaments at both singles an
doubles In court tennis are schedule
for the first two weeks in January
Then they lay on for q while, only I
get busy again during the week OF Feb
ruary 3, when they will compete 10
the DR.. G. D. Hart Cups.
Then will come another recess unit
the week Of March 3. when the single
and doubles championships Of the clu
at court tennis will be decided, with tn
; national doubles tilt following durin
the week Of March 12.
Doubles Handicap
The doubles handicap and double
Y championship Journeys at squash rae
quets are down for the weeks OF Feb
ruary 10 and II. inclusive. while tn
cOntenders for the racquets champion
! ships at both singles and doubles wi
be busy fighting 1t out at approximate
: the same time ~ the squash fends al
. embrOiled.
. 4 new class Of membership has bee
created at the Racquet Club, known q
the "playing membership" 1t IL Ope
!, TO juniors and to young men still
college. and was planned to encoural
|. them to take up racquets. court tenn
: md squash and play those games durir
vacations and over the week. ends.
Williams went back to New Yoi
Sunday. evening, but viii return towaI
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