Word: chopped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mudford backhand when she needed a point, won, 6-1, 6-4. Helen Jacobs has not been playing so well as usual this year; Mrs. Moody beat her 6-0, 6-0 a fortnight ago. When Helen Jacobs beat Betty Nuthall 8-6, 6-4, by steady application of chop-strokes, critics could see that Betty Nuthall's game had not improved much either, made a good guess as to what would happen the next day when she played Mrs. Moody...
...finals of the Sea Bright (N. J.) Lawn Tennis & Cricket Club's invitation tournament after a series of smart victories in the early rounds. He was beaten, in perhaps the most surprising match of the year, by Sidney B. Wood Jr., who upset his game by softly patting chop strokes across...
...with bloodhounds, rounded up 60 thoroughly terrified Negroes who had been at the meeting, jailed 32 on charges of attempted murder and assault, criminal conspiracy, and carrying concealed weapons. The four wounded fugitives had vanished. Camp Hill's police chief cryptically remarked: ''They went out to chop stove wood and haven't returned...
...Vines, who was the sensation of the early tournaments last summer, beat Allison, who made his sensation four years ago, 7-5, 6-3. 6-4. Against Vines, Doeg, still serving well and winning his share of the back court rallies with a slow but effective chop-stroke, won the first set 6-4. Vines, driving to the corners, made Doeg cover his court in pendulum fashion through the next two sets, won them both at 6-3. In the fourth set, Doeg went to the net whenever he could, ran up a three-game lead...
...Moody, playing without an eyeshade, and with a backhand chop which she has incorporated in her game, beat the club professional 7-5 in a practice set, later won the doubles with Mrs. Wightman. Asked why her husband had not come East with her, she replied: "He doesn't like to watch tennis. He had rather stay home and sail a boat...