Word: australian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will remain on the American mantelpiece for another twelve months. Yet for the first two days at Forest Hills the cup was dangerously near the edge and at one point seemed about to topple off. In the first day's play Captain James O. Anderson of the Australian challengers administered to William M. Johnston his first defeat in four years of Davis Cup play. The same day William T. Tilden, II, defeated James Hawkes, Australia, and the series was evened. The following day occurred the longest and bitterest tussle ever played in Davis Cup competition. After falling badly behind...
Died Captain Fred Walters," Blue Man " of Barnum's and Ringling Brothers' Circus, 68, in Manhattan, of heart disease. An autopsy showed that his heart, brain, muscles were as blue as his skin. This is attributed to silver poisoning contracted in an Australian mine...
Davis Cup. Australia succeeds itself as America's challenger for the Davis Cup by lowering the French team's tricolor in three straight matches at Longwood Cricket Club, Boston. James O. Anderson (Australian captain) defeated the French schoolboy, RenÉ Lacoste; John Hawkes disposed of Jacques Brugnon in straight sets, and the same players, paired against each other, locked in a desperate five-set struggle which went the way of the Australians...
Untold power was harnessed, in defiance of hitherto known mechanical principles, by a new gear mechanism, invented by George Morrison Smith, an Australian residing in Pittsburgh, and demonstrated at the Carnegie Institute of Technology...
Sunset at Troon, Scotland, on June 15 found A. G. Havers the winner by one stroke of the British open golf championship. That stroke separated him from Walter Hagen, titleholder. Third place went to MacDonald Smith of California; fourth, to Joe Kirkwood, Australian-born American...