Dick Squires is certainly qualified to produce this manual on "Instant
Squash Tennis."
Added to an articulateness which equips him to put his experience and
knowledge into words, his background in racquet games is broad,
longstanding and at a level sufficiently upper echelon to have garnered
national championships in three separate bat and ball sports.
Starting early, in Bronxville, N.Y., he was a member of the National
Junior Davis Cup Tennis team at 17. Emerging from The Hill School in
1949 and fitted with the National Junior Tennis Doubles crown, he went
through Williams College with the class of 1953.
In 1954, he was 50 percent of the title winning team in the National
Squash Racquets men's Doubles Championships, and was ranked seventh
nationally in singles. Twice a finalist in the National Intercollegiate
Squash Racquets Championship, he was elected President of the National
Intercollegiate Association in 1952.
Less active in formal competition for some years, he latterly became
interested in a newly burgeoning racquet sport, and attained the pinnacle
in the 1966 National Platform Paddle Tennis Doubles Championships.
Meanwhile, he had become fascinated with the venerable game of Squash
Tennis. Attacking it with his usual enthusiasm and natural aptitudes, in
two years he mastered this relatively difficult game sufficiently to be
runner-up in the Nationals Singles (1966). Concurrently, he devoted the
aforementioned enthusiasm to heading a program to revitalize the game;
with significant results. Finally, also in 1967, he was elected
President of the 57 year old National Squash Tennis Association.
A word about the various illustrations showing the squash tennis court
and various shots: The solid * is you and your position and the O is
your opponent's. The direction of flight of the ball is indicated by
arrows and the "x" indicates when and where the ball bounces on the
floor. "F" indicates forehand, "B" backhand, and the "S" is the service.
In all descriptions it is assumed the player is right-handed.
(Illustrated by Richard Kaiser)
[Transcriber's Note: See the HTML version of this e-book for
illustrations. Figure captions have been transferred to the text in
brackets.]