Exhibition against the Syrian Satellite pro, taken with sanguine good temper

texture · 5 Nov YDAU, P.M.

• When: Thursday 5 November YDAU, after P.M. drills
• What: While Hal and Pemulis hash out the DMZ timetable at the Show Courts' fence, Schacht plays a private exhibition against a Syrian Satellite-pro who is at E.T.A. for "two paid weeks of corrective instruction" on a service motion that's eroding the Syrian's rotator cuff. The precise Syrian dispatches him handily, "which Schacht is taking with his customary sanguine good temper, giving his stolid all, learning what he can" — one of the academy's few genuinely stocky players and fewer still without apparent ego, playing, at this point, for the fun of it. Afterward the two are laughing together at the net-post, the Syrian having "kind of cornily jumped the net and pumped Schacht's hand."