Word: ellsworth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ELLSWORTH WYLIE...
...Australian singles championship at Melbourne, beating Keith Gledhill in the final. In the final of the French hard court championship, he finished Henri Cochet in short straight sets. In July he won at Wimbledon in a final that some experts considered the greatest tennis match ever played, against Ellsworth Vines. John Herbert ("Jack") Crawford needed only a victory at Forest Hills this week for a clean sweep of the world's four biggest tournaments, a preeminence in tennis that no player has attained since Tilden...
Francis Xavier Shields, No. 5 ranking U. S. tennist: a match from National Champion Ellsworth Vines, 6-2, 6-4, 6-4, in the semi-finals of the Newport (R. I.) Casino Cup tournament, which Shields then won from Wilmer Allison, No. 2 in the rankings...
Bunny Austin of England, playing in flannel shorts and white socks, beat Keith Gledhill in three sets. Vivian McGrath of Australia who holds his racket with both hands for backhands, surprised his Davis Cup teammates by losing to Harry Lee of England. Ellsworth Vines twisted his ankle but proved it was nothing serious by making short work of little Ryusaka Miki of Japan. Next day Lester Stoefen of Texas and George Patrick Hughes of Ireland defeated Lee and Clifford Sutter, respectively. Little Henri Cochet. who had been riding a bicycle to harden his leg muscles, did amazingly well...
Yale University Authoress Pearl Sydenstricker Buck . . . . . . M.A. Explorer Lincoln Ellsworth . . . . . . . . M.S. Alfred Lee Loomis, Manhattan banker and physicist . . . . . . . . .M.S. Ernest Fremont Tittle, liberal Methodist preacher of Evanston, Ill. . . . . . . . D.D. Director Herbert Eustis Winlock of the Metropolitan Museum of Art . . . . . . . . Litt.D. Hugh Smith Gumming, Surgeon General of the U. S. . . . . . . . . . . LL.D. Harold Willis Dodds, President-elect of Princeton University. . . . . . . . . . LL.D. William Mills Maltbie, Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . LL.D...