Squash Ezine
May 28, 2014
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Hamilton Biggar Rests in Peace
Lincou Takes Over at MIT
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Truth & Rumors

Hamilton Biggar Rests in Peace

Hamilton Fisk Biggar III died last week. He was 67 years old.

He was a leading Cleveland businessman. Among other businesses, he helped found the 13th Street Racquet Club. Biggar also served on the US Squash board and its executive committee.

 

Biggar was squash's leading photographer in the 1980s having captured some of the most iconic images in U.S. squash history.  

 

Biggar was the first to perfect the use of the remote, front-wall camera, giving Squash News readers a new way to view the game and all its emotions.

 

To read Biggar's obituary, please click here

Lincou Takes Over at MIT

Lincou Thierry Lincou has accepted the position of Head Squash Coach at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Lincou spent 10 years in the PSA Top 10 and won a PSA World Open. The 11-time French National Champion is also PST's current champion.

Lincou continues a trend of elite squash players moving to coach in the CSA.

To read College Squash's article, please click here.

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TRUTH & Rumors

  • ShhA couple years ago, the Harvard Club of Boston was caught adding gratuities to members bills but not actually giving the money to its waitstaff.
    • The Club lost a class action $4 million lawsuit filed by the waitstaff. 
    • This past week the Harvard Club told the Boston Herald here that the Club was selling parts of its building to improve the club experience for current members and to attract new members
    • But some of us remember the Boston Globe article here that reported the sale of parts of the building would help pay for the lost lawsuit.
    • #Veritas   #Cui Servire Est Regnare 
  • Rumor has it Brunswick Academy has been the subject of complaints to the U.S. governing body over the past several years.
    • We hear some of their competitors think the Brunswick boys, year after year, show favoritism to their teammates when officiating.
  • Something isn't right with the reporting from the WSA's City of Perth tournament.
    • Sarah Cardwell was unable to continue her semi final match because of an eye injury resulting from Megan Craig "sportingly" retrieving the ball for her.
    • Howard Harding here and WSA here both reported the match reached a 3-1 conclusion. 
    • But SquashSite here reported Craig was disqualified
    • Newspaper reports say here:

      "Megan Craig has missed out on a second squash title ... after an act of sportsmanship went accidentally awry. 

       
      "[Craig] picked up the ball for her opponent after a rally. However, Cardwell failed to catch the ball, was hit in the eye, and was unable to continue after a 15-minute injury break." 

       

    • Have you ever had to withdraw from a match because an opponent "sportingly" gave you the ball after a rally

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