Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much of a bogey, but not so the Czechs. A pair of them; won the women's doubles, a team of Czechs took the Corbillon Cup, and a single Czech, Bohumil Vana, eliminated Viktor Barna, the great Hungarian paddler, in the semi-finals and Defending Champion Richard Bergmann of Austria in the final of the men's singles. In the men's doubles, the Hungarian team of Barna & Bellak were set back by Sol Schiff & Jimmy McClure of the U. S. An Austrian, Trudi Pritzi, won the women's singles. But Hungary regained the Swaythling...
Last U. S. team to journey to the Antipodes was headed by Ellsworth Vines. That was in the winter of 1932-33 when Vines was champion of England and the U. S. On his return, Champion Vines lost his form, lost his All-England title to Australia's Jack Crawford, lost his U. S. title to England's Fred Perry, finally turned professional. The U. S. Lawn Tennis Association prudently stopped sending representatives to barnstorm-below the equator...
Last summer, however, the Australian Lawn Tennis Association prevailed upon U. S. tennis bigwigs to permit Donald Budge, champion of the U. S. and England, to visit Australia. The Australians frankly wanted Champion Budge, a great one for form, to be seen and perhaps imitated by up & coming Australian tennists, of whom there are many. The U. S. L. T. A., feeling that Donald Budge could stand the gaff, acquiesced...
...thus far justified his compatriots' if not his hosts' faith in him. After two months of this & that, during which he had dropped four matches (two to Baron von Cramm and two to Australia's Jack Bromwich) and irritated Australian tennis fans by his lackadaisical performance, Champion Budge had demonstrated that, although he is no superhuman tennis machine, he is still the best amateur tennist in the world. At Adelaide he had reached the semi-finals without losing a set. In the other half of the draw, Baron von Cramm had reached the semi-finals too. Prospects...
Instead of an exciting Budge-von Cramm final, Australians witnessed the painful spectacle of Champion Budge annihilating the ambidextrous and two-handed attack of 19-year-old Jack Bromwich,-which had been powerful enough to win three of the four major state championships (Queensland New South Wales...