The Future of Squash – A Visionary!
by Nick-At-Will
August 2, 2018
“What
is the future of squash? Year after year, more courts spring up and
raise their crops of delight in battle, of thumping feet, of fitness
and of temporarily overtired hearts. Year after year, the game is
played more widely, for the most part in a sporting and anything but
press-conscious spirit. In some respects, the position of the game is
unique. It really does begin to look as if squash is going to be the
first really popular game which cannot be capitalized upon or played
before roaring crowds. Lawn tennis, from its infancy, was always
potentially a public spectacle. Real tennis and rackets can never be
popular because of the cost of the courts, balls and rackets. But
squash appears to be taking a unique path of its own!
Never, except by means of mirrors or television, or by the
aquariumisation of the court, will it be possible for the final of the
world championship to be watched by thousands. Is it possible that a
game with a doubtful reputation as regards to health, a game the
limitations of which are known and admitted to by its votaries, a game
which is incapable of being publicized, is going to take its place
among the most popular pastimes of the future? "I rather think it is!”
K.C. Gander Dower
The Squash Rackets Annual
1937-1938!
