Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hellen Wills sells doubtful sketches. Tilden alternates between the newspaper and the stage. John Doeg leaves college for the Georgia Mecca of the ranking tennis players, and Dr. Hardy, President of the California Lawn Tennis Association, declares that the game is "going to make bums out of our tennis players." Combined with these evidences of dubious amateurism is the announcement of the United States Association to the effect that $45,000, a record amount, will be distributed pro rata to district bodies this year...
Coach Cowles, in discussing last year's tournament, pointed out that it was the third time Harvard had won a national tennis tournament in its opening year. The first instance was at the first national amateur lawn tennis tournament in 1881 when R. D. Sears '83 became national champion. The second time was in 1883 when Harvard won the first National Intercollgeiate tennis tournament in both singles and doubles matches
Elected. Joseph W. Wear, of Philadelphia, onetime Yale athlete, six times winner (1920-24, 1926) with Jay Gould of the national court tennis doubles; to be chairman of the Davis Cup Committee of the United States Lawn Tennis Association; to succeed Julian S. Myrick, of Manhattan, chairman since...
...hair, braver of necktie. They were the far-flown Lindberghs of France, Lieutenant Dieudonne* Costes and Lieut.-Commander Joseph Lebrix, just in from Paris via Africa, South America, Mexico, New Orleans and Montgomery, Ala. They had covered 22,843 mi. and, after handshaking and photography on the South Lawn, they soon hopped off again for Manhattan, whence they thought they might fly to San Francisco before going home. Said Flier Lebrix: "We do not want to go back to Paris by plane, because Lindbergh has already done that. His flight was so chic-it would be useless repetition to follow...
...Lawn Tennis Association came out of conference in Chicago with the scroll of honor for 1927. There was little question about the head man and leading lady. As he has done since 1920 William T. Tilden, 2nd, placed first in the ranking list of U. S. tournament tennis players. Helen Wills, struck from the 1926 list by appendicitis, returned to the top of the female troupe. Among the males youth assumed a predominance shocking to spry ancients. In the first ten Tilden, Francis T. Hunter, No. 2, and Manuel Alonso, one-time Spanish subject, No. 4, were the only veterans...