NO WALL, BUT PLENTY OF ACTION; KELLY MAKES HIS PITCH FOR A U.S. TEAM HANDBALL BERTH.(SPORTS)

From: The News & Record (Piedmont Triad, NC) | Date: April 24, 1996| Author: Steadman, Tom | Copyright information

Byline: TOM STEADMAN Staff Writer

For more than a fistful of years now, Graham Kelly has been busy climbing the ranks of a sport so foreign to most Americans that they couldn't describe it on a dare.

From his beginnings as a club player during his student days at Chapel Hill, through two Olympic Sports Festivals and countless nights of practice, Kelly, a 24-year-old Greensboro native, has been playing and proselytizing for team handball. And, no, it has nothin...

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