Rackets (sport)
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Rackets or racquets is an indoor racket sport played in the United Kingdom, United States, and Canada. It is infrequently called "hard rackets" to distinguish it from the related sport of squash.
R. P. Keigwin (right) with AEJ Collins the college's rackets team at Clifton College c. 1902
Boys hitting up outside the Harrow Old School, c. 1795
A Toff playing with the rabble in prison
Rackets being played at a prison—where the game developed
Fives
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Fives is an English handball sport derived from jeu de paume, similar to the games of Gaelic handball, Basque pelota, and squash. The game is played in both singles and doubles teams, in an either thr
Rackets (sport)
…generally assert that rackets began as an 18th-century pastime in London's King's Bench and Fleet debtors' prisons. The prisoners modified the game of fives (in the process creating Bat Fives) by using tennis rackets to speed up the action. They played against the prison wall, sometimes at a corner to add…
A game of Rugby fives in progress
Fives wall in South Petherton, Somerset
Fives courts at Eton
Fives court at Abingdon School