By James Zug
Photos by Ham Biggar
At the eighth-annual Tub o’ Towels Cleveland Classic last month in Cleveland, Ohio, US Squash presented the 2013 W. Stewart Brauns, Jr., Award to Hamilton Fisk Biggar, III. The Brauns is one of the most prestigious awards in American squash. Created after the death of...
By James Zug
Photos by Steve Line/SquashPics.com
It happened in a challenge match. Jose and I were both seniors, the two captains of the team, battling it out on a dark, winter night in New Hampshire for the number-one spot on the varsity ladder of our college team. The match went...
By James Zug
Look at the list of top eight title winners in the world: seven of the best players ever and a guy the casual observer hasn’t heard of. It’s Mike Corren, the Australian known universally by the nickname Moose. He’s reached 38 in the world; he’s ranked 78...
Paul Moses’ heart is in the right place, but if he really believes that he can talk about urban squash programs and "...abandon references to prep schools and Ivy League teams..." then he seriously misunderstands the central mission of most, if not all, of these programs. He need look no further than...
By James Zug
The eightieth J.P. Morgan Tournament of Champions will be remembered for the
long-awaited arrival of a queen and the wildly exaggerated, misreported demise of a prince.
Nicol David had done everything in the game of squash, except play a competitive point at the most iconic squash tournament in the...
By James Zug
A quarter century ago, a squash racquet had a small head and weighed a ton—it’s amazing to imagine this, but the Head SX2, the standard racquet in the game in the late eighties, weighed 245 grams. This was considered an absolute innovation over the old wooden bats from the start of...
By James Zug
It was a weekend of firsts. It was the 102nd time that the country gathered to play its national squash championship. Yet even after more than a century, so much was new at the annual conclave.
It was the first time the National Singles was held in Virginia. The Boar’s Head hosted the weekend at...
Published by Scribner in September 2003, the book covers every aspect of the sport, from its nineteenth century beginnings in the U.S. to the start of the twenty-first century. It’s quite possible US SQUASH would have missed its own centennial if it were not for Jim Zug’s seminal work...
By James Zug
Walking out onto the steps of St. Mary's Episcopal Church in Wayne, Pennsylvania, after Diehl Mateer's funeral service, one of the most storied players ever said to me: "He was the one, wasn't he? Yes, yes, George Diehl Mateer, Jr. was the greatest amateur squash player in...
By James Zug
Preston Quick directed the 28th annual Butcher/Ball/Ketcham National Intercollegiate Squash Doubles Championships in Philadelphia during the U.S. Open’s first weekend in October. The Racquet Club of Philadelphia again hosted, with Germantown Cricket Club providing two more courts. This enabled the Intercollegiates to offer a consolation for the...