Word: ace
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dike, five-year-old race horse owned by John J. Nesbitt: the Cooperstown Steeplechase, at Saratoga Springs. The favorite, The Ace II, fell at the second jump. Autumn Bells then got a long lead, seemed sure to win until he fell at the 13th fence. Eiderbard, ahead at the 16th jump, ran off the course and was brought back in time to finish second to Van Dike, by 50 lengths...
...Simmons Co. now advance by going backward. The company is in a strong cash position, having ended last year with $6,682,000 in the banks, none owed them, with $21,000,000 current assets against $2,228,000 current liabilities. Its beds and mattresses (Beautyrest, Deepsleep, Slumber King, Ace) are still leaders. An ace-in-the-hole which it has long threatened to play on the industry is Zalmite, a synthetic compound whose chief ingredients are said to be peanut shells, burlap & other waste materials. Zalmite was of course named for President Zalmon Gilbert Simmons. Although early...
...fourth set, Doeg went to the net whenever he could, ran up a three-game lead and won, 6-3. In the sixth game of the last set, Vines kissed his racket when a smash he had hit with the frame dropped into the court for an ace. The ace helped him break Doeg's service, win the match...
Jean Borotra usually makes a tennis match interesting by falling down, laughing at the gallery, wagging his head clownishly, whistling with exaggerated disappointment when his opponent makes an ace. When he plays someone as good or better than himself, he has less time for antics and his admirers have noticed that the more seriously Borotra plays the more likely he is to be beaten. He was serious when he came out on the centre court at Wimbledon last week to play Francis Xavier Shields, a handsome, 21-year-old New Yorker who was anxious to do what only William Tatem...
...right?" Shields was not all right. He rested again, patted his leg, rubbed it, but refused to consider a postponement. He limped out on the court, won the game with an unreturnable serve, lost the next game without trying for it. Serving again, at 5-4, Shields delivered an ace, a first-ball which Borotra hit out, then lost a point at the net. At 30-15, he served a second ball which Borotra netted, and another ace which ended the match...