Word: davises
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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A field with more first class foreign players than any U. S. championship in years was not the only thing that gave last week's tournament at Brookline a special importance. Coming after the closest Davis Cup matches on record, it was a chance to try out new combinations...
Equipped with thick muscles, the suggestion of a paunch and a brisk, business-like walk, ruddy-faced Jack Crawford bears no resemblance whatever to the tall, somewhat languid youths of whom the U. S. first ten is largely composed. For a long time his game, too, failed to resemble theirs...
From Brookes, who was one of the world's best players from 1907 to 1920, Champion Crawford received more than his notion of what kind of bat to use. Now a Melbourne manufacturer, in his middle 50's, Norman Brookes still plays formidable tennis. Last winter he teamed...
Vines, after a disappointing season in which he lost two matches in the Davis Cup series as well as the Wimbledon final, last week started to defend his U. S. doubles championship under an additional burden of worry about his amateur standing. After two weeks of consideration, the U. S...
Last week in Washington the American Newspaper Publishers' Association and the Blue Eagle came to final terms. A. N. P. A.'s President Howard Davis, anxious to end four weeks of wrangling, submitted a "temporary" code by which publishers could officially receive their eagles, got it approved by...