It is difficult to think of Squash Rackets without thinking also of F. D. Amr Bey, the Open and Amateur Champion. Yet at the age of 28, while still in his prime and capable of giving half of the game and a beating to any other amateur, this remarkable Egyptian is retiring. No longer will it be said of any event "hat if Amr Bey was taking pert there could be only one possible winner. By withdrawing from the fray he is at least giving the others a chance I write before ihe final of the Amateur Squash Rackets championship, but I shall be surprised if the winner is not K. C. Gandar-Dower, who was successful in all his matches jin the Bath Club competition, except the one with the champion. Notable absentees from this tournament, in addition to Amr Bey, are N.W.D. Yardley, busy knocking up centuries in South Africa, J. A. Gillies, who is abroad, and R. Pulbrook, kept away by scholastic duties. And of course Flight-Lieutenant B. K. Burnett, who won the Army title last year, is unlikely to put in an appearance, owing to the Air Ministry's non-stop record flight to. Australia,
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