Word: ellsworth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Frederick Perry, No. 2 tennist of England: the Pacific Southwest Championship; beating tiny Jiro Satoh of Japan. 6-2, 6-4. 7-5, in the final after Satoh had beaten Champion Ellsworth Vines Jr. 6-4. 6-4; at Los Angeles...
...more knowing than those who come later in the week stroll about among the outside courts, comparing notes on familiar players, making a patter of applause that punctuates the cool syncopation of tennis balls bouncing against turf and strings. There was plenty of material for sideline talk last week. Ellsworth Vines Jr., defending his championship, and Henri Cochet, keyed to avenge the beating Vines gave him at Roland Garros stadium, had first-round byes. . . . Bunny Austin, England's No. i player, wearing a floppy white duck hat and a flaring pair of white flannel shorts, won his first match...
...Ellsworth Vines: "I found Ellsworth working in Kay's Bakery Shop in Pasadena. . . . He had a Western grip and a roundhouse swing, was about six feet tall and his feet wouldn't be friends with each other. But he had the heart and the willingness. . . . He was determined to hit hard . . . while I fretted over errors...
...Cochet. He seemed to be apologizing for his errors, promising to do better. Cochet smiled and the Frenchmen, piling up points as Bell & Mangin tired, won in five sets 1-6, 4-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-1. The match put them in the semi-finals against Ellsworth Vines & Keith Gledhill, Vines's best friend who he thinks should have been on the Davis Cup team. The other semifinalists were George Lott Jr. & Frank Shields and the defending champions, John Van Ryn & Wilmer Allison. It often happens, despite careful seeding, that the best match in a national tournament...
...Reorganized as junior colleges: Anderson (Anderson. S. C.). Rio Grande (Rio Grande, Ohio). Elmhurst (Elmhurst, Ill.), Lincoln (Lincoln, Ill.), St. Bernard (St. Bernard, Ala.), Northwest Nazarene (Nampa, Idaho), Ellsworth (Iowa Falls, Iowa), Wartburg (Clinton, Iowa), Belmont Abbey (Belmont...