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Raccoon was the coat of choice in the early days of the game. Bill Cooper and Jim Gordon winners of 1959 Men's (on left with bowl) and Dick Hebard and Jim Carlisle runners-up.

Raccoon was the coat of choice in the early days of the game. ...

The ball changes color for improved visibility. John Ware at Fox Meadow pioneered a new ball color by spraying the white ball with a orange-red fluorescent paint

The ball changes color for improved visibility. John Ware at F...

Barbara Koegel receives congratulations from John Ware at the Honors Award ceremony in 1966.

Barbara Koegel receives congratulations from John Ware at the ...

Shirley Babington (left) and Marti Cavanaugh from Tenafly, New Jersey, won the Women’s Nationals in 1974. The sister team was runner-up in 1973, 1975, and 1977.

Shirley Babington (left) and Marti Cavanaugh from Tenafly, New...

1975 Men's Nationals at Fox Meadow. Chum Steele (left) and Keith Jennings

1975 Men's Nationals at Fox Meadow. Chum Steele (left) and Kei...

1975 Men's Nationals winners and Finalists

1975 Men's Nationals winners and Finalists

A large crowd gathers at Fox Meadow Tennis Club in Scarsdale, New York, to watch the final of the 1977 Men’s Nationals.

A large crowd gathers at Fox Meadow Tennis Club in Scarsdale, ...

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Killy Kilmarx (center), the winner of the first Men's Championship with Clifford Couch in 1935, presents the Championship bowl to the fifty-second championship pair of Hank Irvine (left) and Greg Moore. Dick Warren (right), FMTC president, and Paul Molloy, tournament chairman.

Killy Kilmarx (center), the winner of the first Men's Champion...

1998 Senior 70+ Nationals winners Bob Brown and Don Hyde

1998 Senior 70+ Nationals winners Bob Brown and Don Hyde

Spectators brave the snow at the 2008 Nationals in Rochester

Spectators brave the snow at the 2008 Nationals in Rochester

Mack McKitterick on the Cogswell court

Mack McKitterick on the Cogswell court

Lauren Zink hitting a winning forehand. Zink and her husband, George, were the first couple to win both the Husband/Wife and Mixed Nationals in the same year - 2006

Lauren Zink hitting a winning forehand. Zink and her husband, ...

Just after serving, James K. Cogswell on the first platform paddle tennis court erected on his property

Just after serving, James K. Cogswell on the first platform pa...

Walter Close - chief designer, foreman and construction worker for the retaining wall by the club porch

Walter Close - chief designer, foreman and construction worker...

Phil Osborne demonstrating paddle at Marion MA in October 1972

Phil Osborne demonstrating paddle at Marion MA in October 1972