Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Formal acceptance of the Harvard-Yale challenge by Oxford and Cambridge was received by Bernon S. Prentice '05, donor of the trophy and chairman of the international committee of the United States Lawn Tennis Association. Up till now Harvard and Yale have won four of the seven meetings, but the English universities are the present holders of the Prentice Cup, having beaten the Crimson and Blue last summer...
...squad is as follows: catchers: H. N. Carlson '34, E. C. Crane '34, J. M. Lockwood '34, John Swarts '34, Pitchers: P. deB. deGive '34, G. S. Haves '34, W. T. Kemble '34, H. M. Lawn '34, Carl Lichtenstein '34, R. H. Martin '34, A. S. Murphy '34, J. V. Strong '34, First basemen: F. H. Gleason '34, J. W. Morton '34, Second basemen: P. W. A. Hines '34, J. P. Lee '34, H. W. Smith '34, J. R. Weekes '34. Third basemen Beale Elkins, J. N. Field. Short stops: Laughlin Ware. Outfielders: F. R. Burke '34, A. O. Choste...
...behave exactly as if the pilot had deliberately shut off the power for a landing : it would settle earth ward at 14 ft. per sec. (slower than the drop of a man with a parachute), while the pilot maneuvered toward a flat space - say 50 ft. square (a front lawn, perhaps) for a perfect landing. And what is all-important, those operations are much simpler than piloting an airplane. Even the novice could do little damage unless he flew the autogiro directly into collision, or landed it on a church steeple, powerline, or crowded street. First complete description...
Last week the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association announced its annual ranking. From that list was dropped-as everyone knew he was going to be-William Tatem Tilden II who for the last ten years has been ranked No. 1 He had formally renounced all claim to ranking last month when he gave up his amateur standing, turned professional. His friend Francis Townsend Hunter, for three years ranked No. 2, was left out for the same reason. Helen Wills Moody, generally acknowledged to be the greatest woman amateur in the world, was also dropped because, married, she preferred domestic life...
...everyone's surprise Mrs. William Adams of Cedarhurst put out Eleonora Sears, principally by the use of a tricky backhand shot along the side wall. Then Ruth Hall of Philadelphia, runnerup in the finals last year and sister of J. Gilbert Hall, No. 13 ranking U. S. lawn tennis player, put out Mrs. Adams, 15?4, 15?8. 18?17. She went into the finals against her 16-year-old friend Cecelia Bowes, also from Philadelphia. The first game was fairly close until Miss Hall became sure of what Cecelia Bowes was going to do in any situation...