Word: championship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...started playing first-rate tennis before they were 18 (junior-division age limit). The age limit for the boys' division is 15, but there is no law against a boy or a junior playing in an older division. Vincent Richards won the U. S. men's doubles championship with William T. Tilden in 1918 when he was a boy of 15, and the following year won both the U. S. junior singles (outdoors) and men's singles (indoors). U.S. L. T. A. officials were therefore watching eagerly last week when 88 very young men started play...
...Both slim, dark New York City boys, they learned their tennis together on a concrete court back of the De Witt Clinton High School in The Bronx. Two years ago when they were high-school seniors they played together on the team that won the New York interscholastic tennis championship. Then Kantrowitz went to the University of Texas, Fishbach to St. John's University in Brooklyn. When they met last week for the most important match of their careers, 17-year-old Joseph Fishbach showed an extremely promising forehand, a splendid knowledge of court tactics, finally...
...charge of the Dartmouth College ski team it had few real challengers in the U. S. But last year Coach Schniebs resigned, and a 25-year-old Swiss named Walter Prager was imported to succeed him. Skimeister Prager's recommendations consisted of a trunkful of important European skiing-championship awards, including the downhill world championship (1933). He took over Dartmouth's winter activities quietly, confident he could do as good a job as his predecessor. Last week Coach Prager was sure enough of himself to divide his ski squad into two six-man teams to meet two important...
Harvard's strong showing Saturday against the pre-season favored Indians indicates that Coach Wes Fesler's quintet will be very much in the running for the Ivy League championship. Against Dartmouth the Crimson showed their best form of the season, swiftly working the ball in under the enemy basket. Herrick and Lowman Shine on Defense...
...Freshman B team is working hopefully toward what may prove to be a Metropolitan League Championship is its division. So far it has won four, tied three, and lost one match to the City Club. At 8 o'clock on Saturday the team faces the City Club in what will probably be the deciding match of the competition...