Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sports. Football Coach Fielding H. Yost tells how deaf-mutes use sign-signals where others shout. In the "Jere to Libe" volume Helen Wills relates how lawn tennis was introduced to the U. S.?via Bermuda, in 1874. "There was some difficulty in getting the [first tennis] outfit through the custom house, as no one knew what...
...first rank. They heard hot off the scathing, contemptuous tongue of Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden the inside story of The Hague Reparations Conference. Assumedly the King-Emperor was de- lighted, for he soon "commanded" Mr. & Mrs. Snowden to come to him at Sandringham, received them on the lawn, kept them overnight...
Tennis. Eastern lawn (at Rye, N. Y.)- Singles, William Tatem Tilden II of Philadelphia; doubles, Tilden & Frank Hunter of New Rochelle, N. Y.; women's singles, Sarah Palfrey of Brookline, Mass.; women's doubles, Edith Cross & Mrs. Lawrence A. Harper of California. National junior (at Culver, Ind.)-Singles, Keith Gledhill of Santa Barbara, Cal.; doubles, Gledhill & Ellsworth Vines of Pasadena. National boys'-Singles, Jay Cohn of Santa Monica, Cal.; doubles, Cohn & C. R. Hunt of San Francisco...
German national lawn (at Hamburg)- Singles, Christian Boussus of France; doubles, Jacques Brugnon & Christian Boussus of France; women's singles, Frau von Reznicek...
...Lawn Bowling. National singles (at Montclair, N. J.)-William Kidd of Chicago...