1941: Squash Racquets

The brilliant playing of Charles Brinton, of Princeton University, the outstanding feature of the 1941 season, earned him the national amateur and national collegiate squash racquets titles. Brinton, in defeating A. Willing Patterson, the defender, also vanquished Hunter Lott, of Philadelphia, in the finals. The doubles combination of Lott and William E. Slack won the national title for the fourth successive year, defeating Brinton and Stanley Pearson in the semi-finals.

In winning the Lapham Cup, emblematic of international squash racquets team supremacy, by defeating a Canadian team, the United States team won the crown twelve times out of the nineteen years the cup has been up for competition.

In the New York State championships, Stanley Galowin, who put out Patterson in the national, played remarkably well, annexing the title for the third year in a row. Richard S. Rothchild won the Metropolitan (N. Y.) Squash Racquets Association singles title, defeating Arthur H. Barker. Joe Janotta, of Chicago, led in the national veteran's contest, and Murray Vernon captured the Metropolitan Veterans' title.

Miss Cecile Bowes, of Bala-Cynwyd, Pa., retained the national women's title, beating Mrs. Enos Throop of New York, the 1941 Metropolitan champion, in fifteen minutes of play. Miss Eleonora Sears, a former national title holder, lost out in the quarter finals.