{"id":80392803,"date":"2011-11-19T19:28:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-19T19:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/squashword.com\/squashsmarts"},"modified":"2011-11-19T19:28:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-19T19:28:00","slug":"squashsmarts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/?p=80392803","title":{"rendered":"SquashSmarts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Squash is heating up:<\/p>\n<p>In New York the Racquet &amp; Tennis Club hosted the Silver Racquets. In the squash dubs draw, Baset Ashfaq &amp; Gustav Detter beat 2010 national champions Steve Scharff &amp; Dylan Patterson on their way to the semis; Whitten Morris &amp; Addison West won the draw.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.clubatwater.ca\/an\/smitty\/smittybio.html\">http:\/\/www.clubatwater.ca\/an\/smitty\/smittybio.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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&mdash;<em>COLLEGE!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/squashsmarts.org\/\">http:\/\/squashsmarts.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Squash is heating up: In New York the Racquet &#038; Tennis Club hosted the Silver Racquets. In the squash dubs draw, Baset Ashfaq &#038; Gustav Detter beat 2010 national champions Steve Scharff &#038; Dylan Patterson on their way to the semis; Whitten Morris &#038; &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80392803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80392803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80392803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80392803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80392803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80392803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80392803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}