Word: kinsey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Engraven on the bowl are the names of Ichaya Kumagae (1916), R. Norris Williams (1917), William T. Tilden (1919), Clarence J. Griffin (1920), Howard Kinsey...
...Southhampton last week, but the annual invitation tournament went smoothly on. There was only one upset-the defeat of Alfred Chapin by Cedric A. Major of Manhattan. Young George Lott of Chicago easily ended the hopes of upstart Major, and was himself defeated in the finals by Howard Kinsey, last year's winner. The score was 6-2, 6-4, 6-0. Paired with his brother Robert, Kinsey took the doubles from Lott and Bryan Norton (onetime South African Davis Cup star, now of St. Louis), after dropping the first...
...doubles, William M. Johnston and Clarence ("Peck") Griffin, onetime (1915, '16, '20) doubles champions of the U. S., defeated the Kinsey brothers, present U. S. doubles champs. This victory gave them permanent possession of the Seabright Men's Doubles bowls...
...over his head. Rolling up his sleeves, he prepared to serve. "Ooh," gasped the crowd. Tilden put down his rocket, called for a towel that he might dry his hands. A famed actress cried out helplessly: "That man is immortal." Then, deliberately, he served. A great cheer went up. Kinsey, unnerved by this mummery, bungled; superbly the champion swept up the set, the victory...
...doubles, Howard Kinsey and his brother Robert (No. 16 in ranking) were leading Tilden and Sandy Wiener when Robert crashed full length to the court with cramp in the abdomen. The match went to Tilden and Wiener by default, but Johnston and Clarence J. ("Peck") Griffin overcame them in the final...