Word: bernon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Confident of winning the cup, the U. S. team this year made more elaborate preparations than ever before. In addition to Bernon S. Prentice, non-playing captain, and a trainer to prevent Vines from eating too many cucumbers, as he did a year ago. the U. S. team had a coach: famed Mercer Beasley, who will be tennis instructor at Princeton next fall and whose able book, How to Play Tennis, was published by Doubleday Doran last week. Comment on Beasley's behavior by Colyumist W. O. McGeehan: "All through the match between Vines and Austin he sat like...
...candidates for the Board of Directors of the Harvard Alumni Association are as follows: Spencer Borden, Jr. '94, of Fall River; Robert Haydock Hallowell '96, of Milton; Philip Clayton Staples '04, of Ardmore, Pennslyvania; Bernon Sheldon Prentice '05, of Rumson, New Jersey; John Reynolds '07, of New York City; Templeton Briggs '09, of Cincinnati, Ohio; Edward William Mahan '16, of New York City; Lloyd Kirkham Garrison '19; of New York City; Malcolm Whelen Greenough '25, of Boston...
Formal acceptance of the Harvard-Yale challenge by Oxford and Cambridge was received by Bernon S. Prentice '05, donor of the trophy and chairman of the international committee of the United States Lawn Tennis Association. Up till now Harvard and Yale have won four of the seven meetings, but the English universities are the present holders of the Prentice Cup, having beaten the Crimson and Blue last summer...