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...finals, lank James O. Anderson of Australia gazed bitterly but with a certain sardonic resignation at the balls that bounded past, around and over him; occasionally he waved his racket at one, but for the most part he was content to let his opponent, Vincent Richards, have his way with them. In the first two sets, it is true, he had tried more vigorously, even winning the second. But his own apathy and the brilliance of Richards conspired to give two love sets, the match, in Seabright Men's Singles, to the latter...
Many another ball plunked on that second green during the four rounds of the British Open Championship, last week. Lumbering Cyril Tolley would come by; British Amateur Champion Robert Harris (TiME, June 8) ; slouching Ted Ray, the long-driving professional; lank Arthur Havers, Open Champion two years ago, his lips pursed over the putts; clever Charles Whitcomb, whom a stray cur attacked at one tee and sent out of the play with a lacerated hand...
Tilden vs. Richards. Three times in the last fortnight Champion William T. Tilden II has faced blond, pouting Vincent Richards, his protegé, his rival. Three times the lank champion has carried off the victory-first at a benefit match at Forest Hills, L. I., 6-3, 8-6; then for the Metropolitan Court Championship at the New York Tennis Club, 6-3, 6-3, 6-4; for the third time in the finals of the Eastern New York State Championships at New Rochelle...
Sloth drowses in his garden. His flowers have long fallen away, and round his sotted head creep the lank leaves of poison...
...Stevenson. ". . . He was badly put together, a slithering, loose flail of a fellow, all joints, elbows and exposed spindle shanks, his trousers being generally a foot too short in the leg. He was so like a scarecrow that one almost expected him to creak in the wind ... his long lank hair fell straggling to his shoulders, giving him the look of a quack or a gypsy." "In class, when it pleased him to attend, he was the worst-behaved man of my acquaintance...