Word: finalist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Policeman F. F. Shaylor of Portland, Ore.: an individual field pistol match at Camp Perry, Ohio, with a score of 49 out of 50. The other finalist, Andrew Ford of the Royal Northwest Mounted, had the same score, but was judged less able because when it came to shooting a man-shaped moving target he did not get his man as well as Shaylor...
Ellsworth Vines shambled out next day for the finals. In a week, by winning four matches, he had made his name the biggest news in his sport. A large crowd had gathered to see the annihilation of the other finalist, slim, grinning towheaded Sidney B. Wood Jr. of New York. Wood had played Vines twice before and beaten him once. The night before the final he told friends that he "had Vines's number." Nobody was much excited when Vines lost the first set?his slow start had been the familiar prolog of his brilliance. He started the second...
...sweeping out Jimmy Coster's gym in Philadelphia. He started to fight, changed his name to Midget Wolgast. Last week in Madison Square Garden he climbed into a ring and sat down facing a little Negro laconically known as Black Bill, the other finalist in a tournament conducted to decide the flyweight championship of New York and Philadelphia...
...Peterson 4G is a finalist in the Graduate School competition, having defeated A. P. Rogers 1GB 3 to 1. In the semi-final round S. B. Myers IG. who won from F. A. Bedford Jr. 2L., will meet A. M. Pappenheimer Jr. IG. who defeated W. B. Bowers...
Francis Hunter, who ranks second only to Tilden among American players and who was the finalist against Jean Borotra last year, will be the favorite, but by no means a top-heavy one, in an exceptionally strong field. Coggeshall ranks fourteenth in the country, and he is expected to be an easy winner in the opening rounds. Murphy, who was national indoor junior champion in 1929, forced Coggeshall to five sets in the University tournament last fall, and should do even better on the hardwood courts. According to Coach Harry Cowles, the Harvard freshman should be conceded an almost even...