Word: australia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...greater mistake can be made than to assume that the people of England are similar to the people of America or that the people of England are similar to the people of Canada or Australia...
...report came from Australia that James O. Anderson will play no more international tennis. The Captain of the Australian Davis Cup team of 1923, and its most able player asked for ?500 or retirement-and did not get ?500. As told by the Sydney Referee, the story is as follows: "The trouble is really a recrudescence of that which arose just before the Davis cup team left for America. First Anderson said he would go. Then he laid down conditions which the Australasian Association found it could not accede to. Then Anderson forewent those conditions and at the last moment...
...epic of world wanderings and a career in journalism came to an end with the death of John Revelstoke Rathom, at the age of 55. He was born on July 4, 1868, in Australia, and after many wayfarings died in Rhode Island...
...Sept. 15 issue of American Lawn Tennis, Tilden remarked regarding the recent doubles match against Australia (TIME, Sept. 10) : "Suggestions on the methods of play would come better at any other time than between the third and fourth sets...
...warning to the unarmed, merchant ships before sinking them, in order that passengers might save themselves. This point was hotly contested by N. C. Shen 2g., delegate from China, who eloquently proclaimed that the rights of peutrals should supersede those of belligerents. Although W. D. Macpherson 1G., delegate from Australia, sarcastically pointed out that Jentsch wanted the submarines protected by disarming merchant vessels, the delegation voted in favor of Jentsch...