Word: finalist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week's Men's Singles, aggressive, lefthanded, 22-year-old Jimmy McDaniel and fleet-footed, keen-minded, ay-year-old Reginald Weir put on the best tennis performance that has been seen in Jim Crow tournaments since Negroes first learned to play the game in the 18903. Finalist McDaniel, a pug-nosed, shy Californian, is the Bobby Riggs of Negro tennis. Freshman at Xavier (Negro) University, he has just reached top rank this year. Today his admirers think he can beat Bobby Riggs, but once, when they were both students at Los Angeles high schools, Jimmy was beaten...
...Finalist Weir, son of a Washington, D. C. violin teacher, is the Bill Tilden of his race. Onetime captain of the College of the City of New York tennis team (a rarity for a Negro ), he has been the most outstanding colored U. S. tennist of the past decade: national champion in 1931-32-33 and-after a three-year retirement while attending medical college-again...
Entered in the heavyweight class are Tudor Gardiner '40 finalist in last year's tourney, and Charles P. Curtis 3rd. '41, a promising Yearling. Among the 175-pounders are Samuel P. Shaw '39, winner last year, Henry Lloyd '37, 1B., considerably heavier than when he won the 135 pound title two years ago, and Louis B. Harder...
...exciting four-game victory over Bernie Ridder, finalist in the Intercollegiate Squash Tournaments, Captain Alva Sulloway led the Crimson Recquetmen to a 3 to 2 win over Princeton at the University Squash Courts, Saturday...
...spark of genius in a thoroughly unspectacular outfit of Varsity grapplers will be the prodigious task of Coach Pat Johnson this year. Set back only by the loss of '37 Captain Brooks Cavin and Lorrin Woodman, semi finalist in the Spring Intercollegiates, a determined squad, heavily re-enforced by a brilliant Freshman octet, has begun daily workouts in the Athletic Building...