Word: lott
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...them; it strangles the buoyant spirits of balls; its rains rot turf, soften sand. All these things it did at Southhampton last week, but the annual invitation tournament went smoothly on. There was only one upset-the defeat of Alfred Chapin by Cedric A. Major of Manhattan. Young George Lott of Chicago easily ended the hopes of upstart Major, and was himself defeated in the finals by Howard Kinsey, last year's winner. The score was 6-2, 6-4, 6-0. Paired with his brother Robert, Kinsey took the doubles from Lott and Bryan Norton (onetime South African...
...thus indulged young George Lott in the finals of the Clay Court championship (TIME, July 27). Last week in the Illinois State tournament at the Skokie Country Club, Glencoe, Ill., he mocked Harvey Snodgrass, No. 6 on the ranking list, in the same fashion, permitting him to come within two points of winning. Score...
...preliminary playing of the tournament was spiced by the elimination of George Lott, 19-year-old Chicago boy, by one Wray Brown, ranked 13 places under him. Score...
...stands, to jump upon seats, toss cushions, straw hats into the air. Yet that is what a crowd did at St. Louis last week and, curiously enough, its indecorum was too inevitable to be reprehended. For 4¶ sets Champion William T. Tilden II had been playing George M. Lott, young Chicagoan, for the U. S. Clay Court Championship. The former had been a trifle below form, while Lott had played a glittering, trenchant game, won the first set, the third set, and brought the score to 4 all in the fifth and deciding set of the match. Then...
...history,* these gentlemen put their heads together, made up their own ranking list. They removed Watson M. Washburn (placed at Number 6) on the ground that he had not competed in enough tournaments; they expelled Dr. George King from the first ten; set in better places George M. Lott Jr., and Clarence J. Griffin. The first ten now stands: 1) William T. Tilden II, 2) Vincent Richards, 3) William M. Johnston, 4) Howard Kinsey, 5) Wallace F. Johnson, 6) Harvey Snod- grass, 7) John Hennessey, 8) Brian Norton, 9) George M. Lott Jr., 10) Clarence J. Griffin. Rules for Writers...