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Far ahead in popularity is squash racquets. Its votaries have increased in number some 5,000% in the last decade. Now there are countless courts in most important U. S. cities, usually in clubs and hotels, but often in Y. M. C. A. and lodge buildings. Favorite short-order exercise for the not too tired business man, a half-hour of squash racquets, which everybody calls squash, is equivalent to three times as much straight lawn tennis. Ideal for winter exercise, it can be learned in six months, is low on breakage and not too strenuous for any active man. It has recently attracted many women players. Most notable: British Margot Lumb, who beat Tennist Helen Jacobs last fall in the women's tennis at Forest Hills. The U. S. amateur championship, contested last month in Chicago, was won by Donald Strachan of Philadelphia.