On This Day in History, February 4: Casino’s Squash Event — 1937
For the record — squash tennis is played on a four-walled court, and usually “singles” is the game played. The court for this sport is 32 feet long and 18½ feet wide; its front and side walls are each 16 feet high, and its rear wall is 9 feet high. Rackets are used as in regular tennis, only smaller in size, and a black rubber ball is used. A game consists of 15 points.
The game is begun by one of the players hitting the ball so that it strikes the front wall above the service line, which is 6½ feet above the floor; the ball must be returned only off the front wall. A point is scored by the player whose opponent misses the ball; fails to return it to the front wall above the telltale, a metal box ½ inch thick that extends 16 inches above the floor; or makes the ball strike either the ceiling or back wall. In squash tennis only the server can score a point. A match consists of the best two out of three or three out of five games.
The Daily Eagle sports page of Feb. 4, 1937, reported on the Metropolitan Squash Racquets doubles competition held at the Heights Casino on Montague Street the preceding evening. Edwin Bigelow and Alfred Paine of the home club, last Brooklyn survivors, were downed by W. Stapley Wonham and D. Lee Norris of the Field Club, Greenwich.