Word: allison
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wilmer Allison of Austin, Tex., and John Van Ryn of Philadelphia: the U. S. tennis doubles championship; by beating Berkeley Bell & Gregory Mangin 6-4. 8-6. 6-3 in the finals at Chestnut Hill, Mass. ¶ Kaye Don, in Miss England II: the first heat of the Harmsworth Trophy Race, for speedboats, at 89:913 m.p.h.; beating famed Gar Wood of Detroit, in Miss America IX, and his brother George in Miss America VIII; at Detroit. In the second heat, watched by a crowd of 500,000 and won by George Wood, both Kaye Don and Gar Wood were...
...harem. She speaks Indo-Aryan and other Oriental languages, recently made a novel of her own eventful life. Her father was the late George Cram ("Jig") Cook, author, playwright, onetime director of the Provincetown Players, who, successively the husband of Sara Herndon Swain, Mollie A. Price, Playwright Susan Glaspell (Allison's House), adopted Greece as his country and died there seven years...
...shock had a different effect. In the quarterfinals. Vines & Gledhill lost to Clifford Sutter of New Orleans and Bruce Barnes of Austin, Tex., in a three-hour match, 4-6, 10-8, 10-12, 8-6, 6-3; John Van Ryn of East Orange, N. J. and Wilmer Allison of Austin, Tex. beat Perry & Hughes 4-6, 6-4, 4-6, 6-3, 6-3. Rain delayed the play for three days. When the courts were finally dry enough for the completion of one of the most surprising rounds on record in a national tournament, Francis Xavier Shields...
Four seeded players reached the semi-finals-Wilmer Allison of Texas, Clifford Sutter of New Orleans, Ellsworth Vines of California, and Doeg. Doeg, slamming his left-handed serve into court in the way which enabled him to beat Tilden and Frank Shields in the National last year, disposed of Sutter 6-4, 7-5, 4-6, 6-4. Vines, who was the sensation of the early tournaments last summer, beat Allison, who made his sensation four years ago, 7-5, 6-3. 6-4. Against Vines, Doeg, still serving well and winning his share of the back court rallies with...
...Wimbledon gallery looked forward to an all-American final, like last year's when Tilden beat Wilmer Allison, like the finals in 1923 when California's little William Johnston defeated Frank Hunter. WTood, who divides his time between New York and California, justified comparison with Johnston. Slight, delicate, with big forearms and incongruous stamina, he plays a heady game, often loses a set or two while experimenting with his oppo nent's weaknesses. As was Johnston's, his best shot is his forehand though until this year it was so undependable that he made j a habit of borrowing...