Word: jump
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Louis. It is not good manners to yell at a tennis match-not etiquette to jostle ladies in the stands, to jump upon seats, toss cushions, straw hats into the air. Yet that is what a crowd did at St. Louis last week and, curiously enough, its indecorum was too inevitable to be reprehended. For 4¶ sets Champion William T. Tilden II had been playing George M. Lott, young Chicagoan, for the U. S. Clay Court Championship. The former had been a trifle below form, while Lott had played a glittering, trenchant game, won the first set, the third...
...yard dash was credited to one Alfred ("Truck") Miller of Har- vard, a 200-lb. runner. Angry spectators near the starting line asserted that Miller, though no hurdler, had managed to jump the pistol...
Last week, the colleges continued to pay compliments (TIME, June 22). For the first time in history, Oxford University singled out a woman. For valuable contributions to Astronomy?notably the completion of The Henry Draper Catalog of Stellar Spectra, covering 225,300 stars?Oxford created Miss Annie Jump Cannon, a Wellesley graduate and worker at the Harvard Observatory, an honorary Doctor of Science. Miss Cannon, aged 61. journeyed to Oxford to receive her kudos in person...
...track and field championships. A pair of great black legs-flying ebony which provided locomotion for DeHart Hubbard, famed Negro athlete of the University of Michigan-pumped down a narrow aisle 100 yd. long. The watches had ticked 9 and 74/100 sec. Hubbard had previously won the running broad-jump with a leap of 25 ft. 3½ in. He scored 10 points, which surpassed the score of any other man, black or white, in the meet. With a pillar of wind at his back, one Frederick Alderman of the Michigan Agricultural School broke a Conference record...
Norton, Deacon, and Comins of Yale should clean up in the broad jump. Norton became Intercollegiate champion this year in place of his teammate, Comins, who won the classic a year ago. All three can leap at least 23 feet...