Word: ellsworth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ellsworth Vines Jr. of Pasadena and Frederick J. Perry of London were the two most interesting players in the National Doubles Championship at the Longwood Cricket Club last week. Vines, whose father owns a chain of Pacific Coast meat stores, has been the sensation of this year's early season tournaments. He won the Longwood and Seabright invitation tournaments, won again at Newport last fortnight, where he beat Perry in the finals. A lanky youth who often plays in a broad white linen cap. he uses a slice serve, an Eastern grip for his smooth flat drives. Perry played...
...Bull, president of the Saratoga Association. ¶Temperamental, towheaded George Martin Lott Jr.: the Meadow Club Invitation Tennis Tournament, at Southamp- ton, N. Y.; beating Clifford Sutter 6-3, 3-6, 2-6, 6-3, 6-1 in the finals after winning his semi-final match with ailing Ellsworth Vines by default. ¶Maxie Rosenbloom: a poorly attended, poorly contested prizefight in which he defended his light heavyweight championship against Jimmy Slattery, in Brooklyn, by slapping Slattery gently for 15 rounds between which Champion Rosenbloom chatted with his seconds about matters not pertaining to the fight. ¶Charles Ferrara...
...year ago, Ellsworth Vines, whose father owns a chain of Pacific coast meat stores, reached the finals of the Sea Bright (N. J.) Lawn Tennis & Cricket Club's invitation tournament after a series of smart victories in the early rounds. He was beaten, in perhaps the most surprising match of the year, by Sidney B. Wood Jr., who upset his game by softly patting chop strokes across...
Last week, Ellsworth Vines was in the Sea Bright finals again. This time his opponent was John Hope Doeg, U. S. champion. Doeg's play in the early rounds had been weakly erratic-he played a deuce-set match in the first round, dropped a set to an obscure player in the second, almost lost his next match to an exhausted opponent, barely got past a Californian named Jack Tidball in the semifinals. He had already confessed that he did not expect to regain the U. S. championship this year and the readiness with which he had turned...
Among the scientists, headed by fierce-mustached Professor Rudolph Samoilovitch of Leningrad, are two from the U. S.: Lincoln Ellsworth and Lieut.-Commander Edward H. Smith of the Coast Guard. There was a plan to halt the Graf over Kamenev Island in Northern Land Archipelago, lower an inflatable boat or a basket and take aboard Professor Urvantzov, who has for a year conducted an observation station there...