Word: alonzo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which was decided last week at Forest Hills. Perceiving a balance draw, with Tilden and Williams in one half, and William Johnston and Richards in the other, they expected that these four players would move smoothly through to the semifinals; they expected that the dashing foreigners-Borotra of France, Alonzo of Spain, Anderson of Australia-would fall by the wayside; that William Johnston would, as in 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, be runner up, and that he would, as in those years, be defeated...
Play began. After the conventional eliminations of the first and second rounds, Williams crushed Borotra, and William Johnston, not without dust and heat, defeated Manuel Alonzo, the Flower of Spain. In that round Wallace Johnson came to his first test. He was bracketed against James Anderson, Captain of the Australian Davis Cup Team...
Died. Mrs. Mary E. Goldthwaite, 83, third cousin of Abraham Lincoln, close friend of his son Robert, wife of Alonzo Goldthwaite who traced his lineage "directly to George Washington;" in Chicago...
Youth is again under indictment, and must this time bow its head to the charges of no less an authority than Amos Alonzo Stagg, director of athletics at the University of Chicago. There is little doubt, in the opinion of Mr. Stagg, that modern youth has been allowed to grow up softer than a punctured balloon tire. He would put the blame on such Innocent appearing things as late hours, rich foods, and indulgence in other luxuries of life which he believes have combined to enervate the present generation...
...once all good journalists recalled and "hashed up" the obvious parallel, the career of Marcus Alonzo Hanna...