Word: johnstons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Newport. The lustre of tennis week at Newport was dimmed by the absence of Champion Tilden and W. M. Johnston and by the sputter of fairer fireworks in the women's nationals at Forest Hills. The matches most talked about were the default to Vincent Richards by R. Norris Williams when within a point of victory* and the subsequent defeat of Richards by Harvey Snodgrass (latest California star) in the semifinals. Howard Kinsey dislodged Snodgrass and took the title at 6?4, 4?6, 6?0, 9?7. With his brother, Robert, Howard Kinsey also secured the doubles championship...
William M. Johnston, Californian, won the tennis championship of the world at Wimbledon, England...
...Johnston eliminated early in the matches his most able competitor, Vincent Richards, of Providence. In the all-American finals he met Francis T. Hunter, of New Rochelle, N. Y., and won as he pleased...
Heading the committee is Miss Esther Everett Lape, writer and a prominent supporter of Governor Pinchot, elected in Pennsylvania last Fall. Other members of the committee are: John W. Davis, former Ambassador to Great Britain; Federal Judge Learned Hand; William H. Johnston, President of the International Association of Machinists; Nathan L. Miller, recent Governor of New York; Henry L. Stimson, former Secretary of War; Melville E. Stone, of the Associated Press; Mrs. Gifford Pinchot, wife of the Governor of Pennsylvania; Mrs. Ogden Reid, wife of the publisher of the New York Tribune; Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, wife of the former...
...Oxford-Cambridge tennis team of seven has arrived for the American Intercollegiatete. M. D. Horn, their ace, forced William M. Johnston, second ranking American who is now playing in England, to his ultimate limit to win at 12-10, 6-4, just before the team's departure for America...