Word: backhanders
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...brilliant game he used to exhibit consistently. He could not get through Doeg's smashing left-hand service, losing at love nine out of his opponent's last 16 service games. Doeg, never surefooted, never brilliant, aced him 28 times, played Tilden's deep backhand to thwart the maestro's terrific placement game. With the match score 10-8, 6-3, 3-6 in Doeg's favor, the crowd sat on the edge of their cushions at the beginning of the last set. Still quarreling with decisions, Tilden mustered all his declining strength, twice made...
...youngsters from the East and West: Doeg of California, 22, 6 ft. i in. and Frank X. Shields of New York, 20, 6 ft., the most youthful contestants ever to play in the U. S. title singles finals. Lanky Shields was by far the more polished performer, his backhand often acing Doeg's serve, which had little threat for him, down the sidelines. But Doeg, nerveless at all times, continued to chop and drive, scoring well with his net and ground shots. The fourth set was the longest ever played in the final of a U. S. singles title...
...crowd cheered Borotra. Tilden won the second set and lost the third, 4-6. Borotra, saving himself for the last, dropped the fourth with out winning a game. When the score reached 4-all in the last set, Tilden drew Borotra to the net and played his backhand until the Frenchman, reaching for a passing shot, lost his footing and sprawled heavily on the side line. Once, when he needed the fifth set to win, a Wimbledon crowd would hardly have needed to wait while Tilden won it. They waited last week, while Borotra drew even at Sall and then...
...note was a scorcher, a strangler, but written in that backhand fashion called "the language of diplomacy.''* On its face it merely informed M. Briand that Italy would consider it a friendly act if France should sign no agreement or treaty at London to which Italy was not a party. This meant, of course, that Italy would consider it an unfriendly act on the part of France if she should sign a four-power treaty with the U. S., Britain and Japan or any one of 25 tentative special Anglo-French "security agreements" (TIME, April 7), drafts of which were...
...Frazier, coming in close to get the Englishman's cut-shots, netted repeatedly. After being set-point three times, Lord Aberdare won the first set 6-3, took the next quickly, then began to net shots on his own forehand. But Frazier let him have some on his backhand and Lord Aberdare, cool, dark-haired, unhurried, gained confidence, found grille and dedans for aces, mixed his usual service with an undertwist until he had the last set, 7-5, and the title...