Word: championship
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...enormously stimulating prospect of a Budge v. Perry final, the Men's Singles Championship at Forest Hills last week had very little to add. A leg injury forced Defending Champion Wilmer Allison to withdraw his entry. The rest of the seeded players included Jacques Brugnon and three young Frenchmen performing in the U. S. for the first time to gain experience; that coterie of second-flight U. S. stars, like Sidney Wood, Bryan Grant, Frank Parker and Gregory Mangin, who long ago made it clear that their playing would never justify their potentialities; and the latest schoolboy sensation from...
This year, Long Island will lack both the World's Heavyweight Championship prizefight and the international yacht races which it has been taught to expect...
...cards, though, are the U. S. Amateur Golf Championship at Garden City next week, the polo matches with Argentina at Meadow Brook next fortnight, and the 400-mile international auto race at Roosevelt Field next month. Last week, at Meadow Brook, the Open Polo Championship series ended. Last week also, International Tennis, a leisurely international carnival in whose circuit the other stops are Melbourne and Nice, Auteuil and Wimbledon, paused at the flat and singularly unarboreal New York suburb of Forest Hills, to play its last major engagement of the year-the Singles Championship...
...days when Tilden, Johnston and Richards, first three in the world's tennis ranking, made the thought of serious rivalry for the Davis Cup an absurdity, the U. S. Men's Singles Championship was easily the equal of the All-England Championship at Wimbledon. This year the U. S. celebrated the tenth anniversary of its last Davis Cup victory by failing for the first time even to reach the final of the tournament* and the only chance that Forest Hills would supply the season's climax as well as its conclusion lay in the hope that...
...Open Polo Championship is a misnomer. If the popularity of a game were measured by the number of people who would like to play it, polo might be the U. S. national pastime. As it is, a generous estimate would put the total number of U. S. poloists at 5,000. Of the 5,000- because at least half the responsibility in polo is the pony's, and a good string, properly equipped, costs $25,000-all but some 500 play a variety of polo which compares to what was going on on Long Island last week...