Word: game
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...game was noisily underway when Mr. Eugene G. Morehead, accompanied by Mr. Harold Levy, then but recently come South from Down East, drove up. To a young and enthusiastic looking darky who approached, Mr. Morehead asked for the score...
Frank James Marshall, U. S. champion, is a large man with a red face and a hooked nose. He plays a dashing, "romantic" game; seldom draws but often loses. Marshall's style is fascinating to the onlooker, but usually does not finish him high up among first class players. He invented what is known as the Cambridge Springs variation in the Queen's Gambit. Marshall is also a bridge expert with a fondness for No Trump bids...
Aron Nimzowitsch, son of a Danish department store keeper, is one of the comparatively few players with a "system." He has figured out what might be termed the ideal game, and, within the limits of practical competition, he plays...
...that point that something happened, something perhaps internationally significant. Polo is usually a game of brilliant individuals. The young Old Aikens rely on perfect team-play. Riding into the fifth chukker against the Greentrees they opened a team attack of such dash and precision that they scored five times without giving the Greentrees another goal. Captain Iglehart tied the score on a free shot just before the final gong. In the extra period he smacked another one through. The Midwests, able individualists though they were, could make no headway at all against the Old Aiken system of feeding, riding...
...Youth rose up invincible when John Van Ryn and Wilmer Allison, new British doubles champions, met Cochet & Borotra. Winning 6-1, 8-6, 6-4, they stood forth as the most smooth-running doubles team in the game today...