Word: beating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pierre Etchebaster, a Basque from St. Jean de Luz and the Jeu de Paume of Paris, beat the best court tennis players in the U. S. last week in Philadelphia. Jock Soutar, Britisher, met him in the finals for the national championship in the Racquet Club of Philadelphia...
Court tennis is still played with a lopsided racquet, a low net, a court with a sloping roof. Each point is played twice. The spot where a player loses a point is marked and then the other player tries to beat this mark. On the net line sit individuals chanting in a monotonous voice. "Four-better than three-worse than three. . . ." The ball, harder and almost as heavy as a baseball, makes bulletlike noises as it hits the walls. Extra racquets are piled at the side of the court. Breaking one, a player grabs another, finishes the point. Sometimes...
General Diaz stands out as the greatest of Italy's generals in the World War. The Ceneral Powers beat his soldiers back almost to Venice, but with supreme skill and assurance he struck the Austrian forces the blows that drove them from Italy and that meant the fall of the Double Eagle and the withdrawal of Austria from the combat. After the Armistice he received the highest honors from his allies, among them the United States, which he visited...
...University horsemen beat Yale at New Haven, on February 22, by the score of 15 1-2 to 9 1-2. In that game the Crimson riders were using strange ponies in a small ring with poor footing. The larger and better surfaced ring of the Commonwealth Armory should draw better polo from both teams, although Harvard, having the advantage of considerable practice in the Armory, should benefit the most...
...York, George Kojac, swimmer, broke Johnny Weissmuller's world's record for the hundred yard backstroke. Kojac's time was 1, minute 2 1/5 seconds. In the same meet Walter Spence with a time of 2 minutes 31 seconds beat the world's record for the two hundred yard breast stroke...