Word: cramm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Said Baron Gottfried von Cramm, first German tennist to reach a Wimbledon final since the War, "He was very, very much too good for me." "He" was Frederick John Perry, ablest British tennist since the Doherty brothers, who, playing far better than a year ago, had won the Men's Singles Championship for the second year in a row by beating von Cramm in the final, 6-2, 6-4, 6-4. The round before, Perry had beaten Australia's Jack Crawford, Wimbledon champion in 1933, and von Cramm had beaten redhaired Donald Budge of California who, in his first...
...match in an intermittent shower, Roderick Menzel amused himself by uttering Czechoslovakian epithets, tottering about at snail's pace between points. He was put out in the fourth round. Vernon Gordon Kirby, whose father fought in the Boer War, first gained world recognition when he defeated Baron von Cramm to reach the quarter-finals at Wimbledon this year. At Forest Hills last week he put Frank Shields out in the quarterfinals, only to lose to Perry the next...
Doubles champions at Wimbledon last week were: Jean Borotra and Jacques Brugnon; Elizabeth Ryan and Mme Rene Mathieu; Hilda Krahwinkel and Baron Gottfried Von Cramm...
...Baron Gottfried von Cramm of Berlin: the German tennis championship; beating Roderich Menzel of Czechoslovakia 3-6, 6-2, 6-2, 6-3 in the final; at Hamburg...
...helped give France some of the confidence it had lost when Rene La Coste announced that he was too sick to play. French newspapers generously warned Vines not to eat pork and cucumber the day before he played Henri Cochet. as he had done before playing Gottfried von Cramm. Vines was not warned about eating cucumbers before his match with Jean Borotra because even the most optimistic Frenchmen took it for granted that Vines would win this match no matter what...