Squash is heating up:
In New York the Racquet & Tennis Club hosted the Silver Racquets. In the squash dubs draw, Baset Ashfaq & Gustav Detter beat 2010 national champions Steve Scharff & Dylan Patterson on their way to the semis; Whitten Morris & Addison West won the draw.
In Montreal the weekend before, the twenty-fifth and final Smith Chapman was played. Seventy-five teams came for another great Smitty. Smith Chapman was a giant on the court in the sixties across the continent and administratively afterwards. He died in 1987 after an heart attack at the end of a squash match. They are shutting down the tournament, which honors one of the giants of our game.
http://www.clubatwater.ca/an/smitty/smittybio.html
And in Philadelphia last weekend, SquashSmarts celebrated its tenth annniversary with a gala evening at the Racquet Club of Philadelphia. It was tremendously fun with almost three hundred people. I played in a court tennis exhibition, down the hall from serious squash doubles action (the Pierce family filling out one match by themselves). Then downstairs we had a live auction, a viciously competitive silent auction and a lot of good chatter. I ended winning a bid on a Dartmouth squash tee-shirt—COLLEGE!