SQUASH TENNIS
by Richard C. Squires
$1.00
[March 1968]
CONTENTS
- Who Can Play?
- Strategy
- Fundamental Strokes
- Shot-Making
- History of Squash Tennis
- Court Specifications and Equipment
- Official Playing Rules
- [National Champions]
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dick Squires is certainly qualified to produce this manual on"Instant Squash Tennis."
Added to an articulateness which equips him to put hisexperience and knowledge into words, his background in racquetgames is broad, longstanding and at a level sufficiently upperechelon to have garnered national championships in three separatebat and ball sports.
Starting early, in Bronxville, N.Y., he was a member of theNational Junior Davis Cup Tennis team at 17. Emerging from TheHill School in 1949 and fitted with the National Junior TennisDoubles crown, he went through Williams College with the class of1953.
In 1954, he was 50 percent of the title winning team in the NationalSquash Racquets men's Doubles Championships, and was ranked seventhnationally in singles. Twice a finalist in the NationalIntercollegiate Squash Racquets Championship, he was electedPresident of the National Intercollegiate Association in 1952.
Less active in formal competition for some years, he latterlybecame interested in a newly burgeoning racquet sport, and attainedthe pinnacle in the 1966 National Platform Paddle Tennis DoublesChampionships.
Meanwhile, he had become fascinated with the venerable game ofSquash Tennis. Attacking it with his usual enthusiasm and naturalaptitudes, in two years he mastered this relatively difficult gamesufficiently to be runner-up in the Nationals Singles (1966). Concurrently, he devoted the aforementioned enthusiasm to heading aprogram to revitalize the game; with significant results. Finally, also in 1967, he was elected President of the 57 year oldNational Squash Tennis Association.
A word about the various illustrations showing the squashtennis court and various shots: The solid 
is you and your positionand the 
is your opponent's. The direction of flight of theball is indicated by arrows and the "x" indicates when and wherethe ball bounces on the floor. "F" indicates forehand, "B"backhand, and the "S" is the service. In all descriptions it isassumed the player is right-handed.
(Illustrated by Richard Kaiser)
Anyone who
enjoys
playing Tennis, Squash Racquets, PlatformTennis, or
any
racquet game and has
good reflexes
will
love
Squash Tennis.
Where it lacks the endurance and subtlety that Squash Racquetscalls for, it offers the exhilaration inherent in powerfully hitstrokes, split-second racquet work, and graceful, seeminglyunhurried footwork. The ball "comes to yo