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PADDLING ALONG TO A TITLE
Douglas S. Looney
April 12, 1976
While Warren Gamaliel Harding fans shuddered, the nation's best platform tennis players set up their stage at hallowed Forest Hills
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April 12, 1976

Paddling Along To A Title

While Warren Gamaliel Harding fans shuddered, the nation's best platform tennis players set up their stage at hallowed Forest Hills

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Talbert is right. It was fun. It didn't harm the West Side Tennis Club. And it may be the first little step for paddle en route to brighter lights. Whatever the number of spectators, it was agreed that the first U.S. tennis championships here in the early 1900s had an even smaller crowd.

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