Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nominated. Samuel H. Collom, President of the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association, is a member of the Germantown Cricket Club, where William Tatem Tilden II learned to play tennis. Because he has known Tilden for a long time, people guessed it was President Collom who got Tilden declared an amateur again in time for the last Davis Cup matches. If Tilden needs help again this year, Mr. Collom will not be there. Last week the elections committee of the U. S. L. T. A. nominated Louis B. Dailey, Manhattan realtor, as its next president. He has been serving as vice...
Reginald Weir and Gerald Norman Jr. did not play in last week's national junior indoor tennis championship. Their applications were rejected without explanation by U. S. Lawn Tennis Association. That made the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People write a protest: "Unfair, unsportsmanlike . . .calculated to degrade the sport . . . spirit of caste and class snobbery. ..." Meanwhile, in a Manhattan armory the best white tennis players between 16 and 18 played for the championship, hitting the ball so that the shots boomed like explosions. Boys under 16 played for the boy's title, tapping their shots back...
When the National Junior and Boys Indoor Tennis Tournament reached the final during the recent holidays tennis critics began speculating as to prospective Davis Cup Team material among the contestants. It was known that the United States Lawn Tennis Association had made every effort to get a large entry list in order to develop young tennis stars who will in time make Davis Cup Team material and as such help return the international trophy to the United States. The two finalists in the Junior division, Jacobs of Baltimore City College and Richardson of Dartmouth, were considered by some...