Word: lott
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seeking Divorce. Mrs. Abigail Stapleford Allen Lott, 21; from George M. Lott Jr.. 24. Davis Cup tennis player with whom she eloped to Elkton, Md. last October; in Philadelphia...
...thunder storm had carried away the roofs of two stables, part of the roof of Saratoga's Grand Union Hotel, felled hundreds of trees one of which came down on an auto belonging to George H. Bull, president of the Saratoga Association. ¶Temperamental, towheaded George Martin Lott Jr.: the Meadow Club Invitation Tennis Tournament, at Southamp- ton, N. Y.; beating Clifford Sutter 6-3, 3-6, 2-6, 6-3, 6-1 in the finals after winning his semi-final match with ailing Ellsworth Vines by default. ¶Maxie Rosenbloom: a poorly attended, poorly contested prizefight in which...
...Irish doubles partner, George Patrick Hughes, would speedily lose a majority of their five matches. Their opponents were Sidney B. Wood Jr., who won the British championship at Wimbledon fortnight ago; his good friend Francis Xavier Shields who defaulted to him in the Wimbledon finals; and George Lott Jr. & John Van Ryn, Wimbledon doubles winners, often called the best team in the world...
Wood, off his game the first day, lost to Austin but Shields beat Perry. When Lott & Van Ryn disposed of Perry & Hughes, the result seemed more than ever a foregone conclusion. The next day Wood, who had beaten him easily at Wimbledon, lost to Perry 6-3, 8-10, 6-3, 6-3. In the last match, balloon-trousered Bunny Austin came up against Shields, speedily defeated his large and impressive opponent whom he had never beaten before, 8-6, 6-3, 7-5. The conclusion reached by spectators was, however, that Austin, Perry & Hughes would surely lose to France...
Three other championships were decided before Wimbledon Week (which | lasts a fortnight) was over. George Lott Jr., who last year declined to be a "tennis bum" but still tours the world playing tennis, and John Van Ryn, who jumps around the court as though his legs were pogo-sticks, won the doubles championship in a long match against Henri Cochet and Jacques Brugnon ? 6-2, 10-8, 9-11, 3-6, 6-3. Two British women, Mrs. D. C. Shepherd-Barron and Phyllis Mudford, be came women's doubles champions. Mixed doubles champions were George Lott...