Word: davises
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wills. Sports writers have long: referred to Mrs. Molla Bjurstedt Mallory as "the lion-hearted." They began to use this somewhat hackneyed phrase for a most uncommon quality in 1921 when Mrs. Mallory beat Suzanne Lenglen in their one-set match at Forest Hills. They repeated it when, in 1923...
Dwight Filly Davis Jr., who received a "Louisville Slugger" ball bat autographed by Babe Ruth, because he was judged the best soldier-athlete at the Citizens Military Training Camp at Plattsburg, N. Y.
"Who do you think I am-President Coolidge?" This was Vice President Dawes' way of informing Chicago camera men that he did not wish to be photographed in fishing garb before leaving for Colorado. Said Mr. Dawes: "If President Coolidge wants to pose for fishing pictures, all right, but...
As for long Will Tilden, these five years kingpin of terrestrial tennis, there was little gaiety in him that evening. It was the third successive time this summer that Richards had trounced him. In the match that afternoon, Tilden's stroking had been sodden and erratic; now frantic, now...
Where had she left her jewels? That was what one Martina Davis was wondering as she stepped into the Manhattan shoe-store of Louis D'Ascali, known as "The Singing Cobbler." Why, only the night before, when she left with lilting Louis the shoes she had now come to...