Word: beating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more obviously than Nominee Hoover today, Nominee Taft in 1908 was a President's hand-picked successor. Also like Hoover, he had never before run for a public executive office. With Roosevelt's aegis over his personal distinction, he easily beat Bryan. On a blizzardy 4th of March he drove, behind four skittish bay horses, to be inaugurated in the Senate Chamber...
Tommy Creavy, 17-year-old assistant professional at Mamaroneck, N. Y., recently a caddy, beat Golfer Johnny Farrell, open champion, in a 19 hole match in the quarter-finals of the Metropolitan Professional Championship. Gene Sarazen won the tournament...
Everyone knows about Vincent Richards, who used to beat Tilden more often than anyone else till he became one of Cold Cash Pyle's pro's. Nobody, in the U. S. at least, seemed to know much about Karel Kozeluh. Admitted by most experts who have seen him play to be the greatest tennis player in the world, Karel Kozeluh prefers the game of hockey at which he is almost equally expert. He is a member of a family famous in Prague for their sporting activities; when 12, he had saved up enough money which he made from...
...match in which Kozeluh beat Richards last week was not characterized by that tense, almost insane hunger for points with which amateurs excite galleries and rattle their linesmen. Both men seemed to be enjoying their game; Kozeluh would explain "Bed lock!" to the gallery when Richards dropped a volley. His game was distinctively that of a professional; he carried his racquet awkwardly at his side, played from the base-line with, a long follow-through and a short backswing, ran for nothing which he could not get and got practically everything he tried for. His returns were never purely defensive...
...first day of match-play, five former champions−Von Elm, Marston, Sweetser, Ouimet, and Chick Evans−were put out of the tournament. Voigt, after beating Sweetser, played through the quarter finals to meet Phil Perkins, the British Walker Cup Captain, in the semifinals. Bobby Jones, playing better every day, after going to an extra-hole to eliminate Gorton, the homeclub entrant, beat John Beck...