Sport: In a Red Room

In Manhattan, a little white ball streaked back and forth, around and about, the four red walls of a brilliantly lit room. Following the ball’s dizzy speed, two agile men, with the eyes of falcons, pursued it, rackets poised. In turn they beat the ball afresh to make it go faster—whack, whack, like pistol shots against the walls. Now and again one would miss his stroke. Now and again came a great clang as the ball crashed into the “tell-tale,” or metal strip across the bottom of the front wall. For an hour or so the two men and the little white ball flashed hither and thither in the little red room. Then they desisted—and William Rand Jr. of Manhattan, congratulated his conqueror, R. Earl Fink of Brooklyn, upon winning the final match of the national fall amateur scratch squash tennis tournament. Outpaced at first, Fink had summoned whirlwind speed to break through Rand’s flawless technique. Score : 17-15, 15-7, 12-15, 15-9.