Word: championship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Australian tennist has ever captured the U. S. Singles championship. Britons have-H. L. Doherty in 1903, Fred Perry in 1933-34-36. So have Frenchmen-René Lacoste in 1926-27, Henri Cochet in 1928. Nearest an Australian ever came to the U. S. title was in 1933, when steady, sturdy Jack Crawford (French, English and Australian champion that year) was nosed out of a tennis grand slam in the final...
...Crawford, Harry Hopman) who had come to the U. S. this summer might well take back to the Antipodes not only the Davis Cup which they won last fortnight and the U. S. Doubles title (won by Quist & Bromwich last month), but-at long last-the U. S. Singles championship...
...biceps were hard as the heel of his shoe. (He works with dumbbells every morning.) I think he'd love a chance to take someone on and show how much of the boxing cunning he has kept from the days when he held the championship of City College...
...Robert Anthony Eden served in World War I as a captain, was decorated for valor (Military Cross), came out a Brigade Major, remained a major in the Territorials. In the Cabinet and out his chief characteristics were his impeccable clothes and his championship of meeting force with force. Early last week, just before World War II seemed sure, Major Eden put on his King's Royal Rifle Corps uniform, posed in front of a tent (see cut), hurried off to his battalion guarding London's East End docks. But before Great Britain fired its first shot and practically...
...singles players, 21-year-old Bobby Riggs and 23-year-old Frankie Parker-despite the fact that Riggs won the All-England championship at Wimbledon this year and Parker clinched the Davis Cup for the U. S. two years ago -were considered the weakest Davis Cup players the U. S. had had in a generation. For the doubles-to face seasoned Quist and Bromwich-U. S. Davis Cup Captain Walter Pate selected 20-year-old Joe Hunt and 18-year-old Jack Kramer. It was a last-minute, panic choice. Gene Mako, who had teamed brilliantly with Don Budge...