My father has never belonged to a fancy health or racquet club.

"We would just go somewhere to a racquet club, play pickup games before practice," he said.

It eventually changed its name to the Racquet Club, and the original building was destroyed by fire in 1962.

There is a comfortable base lodge, with adjacent indoor racquet club.

But members of the racquet club remain firm.

The Racquet Club has not been spared some ill effects of the recession, however.

Mr. Cluster said he was asked to turn over documents relating to the racquet club but would not comment on their nature.

But the numbers are less impressive than the apartments themselves, which blend in with the surrounding racquet clubs and bistros.

Its action takes place in the locker room of a public racquet club, where the metaphorical game of life is just offstage.

I¡ ll bet you¡ re the terror of the Racquet Club.