I don't think any food could be bought in the canteen, but wine, and, I think, whisky also, could be obtained, as well as tennis racquets, knives, books, pencils, boxes, and tobacco of all sorts.
"The Escaping Club"
A. J. Evans
I know you've got silver spiders and filagree racquets, and Rhine-stone moons and stars stowed away somewhere and won't confess it.
"Spinning-Wheel Stories"
Louisa May Alcott
A score of young Britons come next in rickshaws, some carrying tennis racquets, and others reading books or the afternoon paper.
"The Critic in the Orient"
George Hamlin Fitch