Word: championships
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mouth while he saw Von Elm tap his ball into the hole; while he saw a roistering squad of spectators hoist Von Elm, to their shoulders, while he saw Von Elm, bobbing and blushing after his magnificent exploit; receive the gold cup that meant the national amateur championship...
...blond man who used to caddy at the country club in Salt Lake City. When he was 15 he won the Utah States championship, playing largely with a mashie-niblick, the only club he really understood. Since then he has often been a finalist, often a local champion. Two years ago in the national finals at Merion, Jones beat...
...Lacoste's precision was too much for him. In the first and third sets Borotra took the lead by breaking through his friend's service; but Lacoste's lobs were too accurate, Lacoste's placements too well thought, and 22-year-old Lacoste won the championship...
...faster than any others on this earth, to take a set, the second. But even his efforts, and those of the doughty Chapin, could not prevail against the gleaming, electrical teamwork of Richards and Williams who, rushing for the net after every serve, volleyed their way to the doubles championship of the U. S., 6-4, 6-8, 11-9, 6-3. Elizabeth Ryan and Jean Borotra took the mixed doubles title; Major A. J. Gore and Claude Butlin the Veterans'; Donald and Malcolm Hill, the Father...
...doubles tennis championship...