Women's Squash Racquets

Until four years ago women did not, officially, play squash racquets. A few inveterate sportswomen like Eleonora Sears of Boston pioneered whenever they could get on a men's court. Clubs around Boston, where Miss Sears is an influence, began to let women use their courts. In Manhattan women play on the Junior League and Colony Club courts; out-of-town courts are available for them at Ardsley Swimming & Racquet Club (Ardsley-on-Hudson) and at Nassau Country Club and Rockaway Hunting Club on Long Island; in Chicago they play tournament matches at the Racquet Club and in Detroit the wives of members may use the Racquet Si Curling Club. At the Greenwich (Conn.) Country Club last week contestants from the East gathered for a national championship. Western players had for some reason which was not explained made no reply to the invitations.

To everyone's surprise Mrs. William Adams of Cedarhurst put out Eleonora Sears, principally by the use of a tricky backhand shot along the side wall. Then Ruth Hall of Philadelphia, runnerup in the finals last year and sister of J. Gilbert Hall, No. 13 ranking U. S. lawn tennis player, put out Mrs. Adams, 15--4, 15--8. 18--17. She went into the finals against her 16-year-old friend Cecelia Bowes, also from Philadelphia. The first game was fairly close until Miss Hall became sure of what Cecelia Bowes was going to do in any situation. She ran it out, 15--10, then whacked her strong backhand for all it was worth to win the second, 16--13. Young Miss Bowes was enough encouraged by her own rally in the last minutes of that game to win the next, 15--12, but then Ruth Hall, smarter, more experienced, took the last game, 15--8, the match and the title.

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