Word: cricket
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...people, the receiving apparatus of the ear becomes less elastic than in youth; it does not respond quickly to short waves (shrill) sounds. Words or notes of music following in fast succession run together and cannot be distinguished. The condition is presbyotia (old age hearing). Presbyotes cannot hear cricket chirps, nor high pitched yodeling...
...least, if the Harvard man is indifferent, there are occasions at which he doesn't show it. Sometime just watch who seems to be indifferent, (whether he is or not, is of no account) attend a cricket game for example and ask yourself the question...
...Germantown Cricket Club, Philadelphia, the contest for the famed Davis Cup stood even with two matches for the U. S. and two for France after William T. Tilden II had lost to Rene Lacoste 6-3, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2. Out ran William Johnston, famed Davis Cup defender, only hope of the U. S. team. He would show that U. S. stamina could whip French flabbiness...
...smooth tennis lawns of the Longwood Cricket Club, Brookline, Mass., famous men played doubles for the U. S. championship. Famous William Johnston, San Francisco, stepped off the train out of practice and teamed with Richard Norris Williams. Once they had played doubles together before; to win the Norwood Tournament in England, 1920. Spectators watched them narrowly, since only they could dispute with William T. Tilden Jr., Germantown, Pa., and Francis Hunter, New Rochelle, N. Y., sly shotmakers, the honor of playing doubles for the U. S. against France in the approaching Davis Cup matches. They won early matches easily against...
...intercollegiate tennis singles matches at the Merion Cricket Club in Haverford, Pa., last week, were not up to snuff, but the championship went to the Southwest for the first time in the 42 years' history of the tournament.* Wilmer Allison, 22, of the University of Texas, ran Ben Gorchakoff of Occidental College (Los Angeles) off the court in 39 minutes in the finals. Score...