Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Oxford-Cambridge vs. Harvard-Yale tennis meet will be held this year on July 6, it was announced at the H. A. A. yesterday on receipt of a letter from the United States Lawn Tennis Association in New York. The Prentice Cup, which is to be awarded each year by Mr. Bernon S. Prentice '05, to the winners of the international match, will be in competition for the first time this year...
Revised Ranking. In Manhattan, there assembled the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association. As a rule, these meetings are not signally important; officers are elected, reports are read, the list of ranking published by the Executive Committee is confirmed. This year, the listed ranking, as approved and recently published by the committee (TIME, Feb. 2), was submitted to the body. Far from approving, individual members were said to have torn up the list and trampled thereon. Like those deputies who made a certain tennis court in Versailles famed in history,* these gentlemen put their heads together, made up their own ranking...
...came the annual official list of the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association. Heading the list, for the fifth time in succession, was elongated "Will" Tilden II. William Johnston, of San Francisco, second since 1919, dropped to third place, giving way to the nimble-footed, sharp-eyed Vincent Richards of Manhattan. Others in order: Howard O. Kinsey of San Francisco, Wallace F. Johnson of Philadelphia, Watson M. Washburn of Manhattan, Harvey Snodgrass of Los Angeles, John Hennessey of Indianapolis...
...names of three Harvard men, one an undergraduate, are included in the ranking list made public yesterday by the Ranking Committee of the Metropolitan Lawn Tennis Association of the New York City district...
...lawn of the John Dickson Home for Invalids, in the northwestern part of the Capital, was erected, on an octagonal pedestal of yellow marble, four and a half feet high, a bird bath. Around its rim is inscribed: "Dedicated to the birds of Piney Branch by Elise and Jules Jusserand, 1903-1925." Piney Branch is a neighboring stream famous as a gathering spot for song birds. There Mr. Jusserand dedicated the fountain to his "feathered companions, from an old friend of Washington's warblers...