Word: berkeley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Berkeley, Calif, saw St. Mary's make a touchdown in the first period, another in the third, keep onetime Navy Coach Bill Ingram's University of California team on the defensive between times. St. Mary's 14, California...
...players are almost equally good. Only one oldtime player made a showing?Richard Norris Williams II, champion in 1914 and 1916. No one was too much surprised when Sidney Wood Jr., boastful but erratic young Wimbledon champion, was beaten by an unseeded player in the third round nor when Berkeley Bell showed annoyance at having to finish his match with Wilmer Allison on a court outside the stadium. There are at least one upset and one squabble in every tournament...
...University of California (Berkeley, Calif.) reported that trade and vocational night schools in the vicinity were calling for more teachers than could be supplied. Immediately the University started a night course to train male & female vocational teachers for fulltime positions. Said Benjamin E. Mallary of the Division of Vocational Education: "Unemployment creates an interest among workers in self-improvement. . . . This situation is furthered also by the recent legislative act which requires unemployed minors of school age to attend classes...
...Wilmer Allison of Austin, Tex., and John Van Ryn of Philadelphia: the U. S. tennis doubles championship; by beating Berkeley Bell & Gregory Mangin 6-4. 8-6. 6-3 in the finals at Chestnut Hill, Mass. ¶ Kaye Don, in Miss England II: the first heat of the Harmsworth Trophy Race, for speedboats, at 89:913 m.p.h.; beating famed Gar Wood of Detroit, in Miss America IX, and his brother George in Miss America VIII; at Detroit. In the second heat, watched by a crowd of 500,000 and won by George Wood, both Kaye Don and Gar Wood were...
...completion of one of the most surprising rounds on record in a national tournament, Francis Xavier Shields of New York and Sidney B. Wood Jr. beat Doeg & Lott, 14-16, 6-2, 6-4, 7-5. The other team in the semi-finals was Gregory Mangin of Newark and Berkeley Bell of Dallas...