Word: lott
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Doubles winners at Wimbledon last week were: George Lott and Lester Stoefen, Elizabeth Ryan and Mme René Mathieu; mixed doubles winners: Dorothy Round and Ryuki Miki...
When the U. S. indoor tennis championships started last week in Manhattan, several players looked good enough to win. First to fall was Jean Borotra of France. Declared the four-time winner: "I am getting too old. It looks like ping-pong next for me." George Lott, who limped with a sore toe, and Andre Merlin, French indoor titlist, went out in the quarterfinals. Frank Shields, No. 1 ranking U. S. player, and Sidney Wood, No. 6, were dropped in the semifinals...
...four reasons: 1) he had not secured proper permission to attend NRA hearings; 2) the company assumed he had severed connections; 3) his activities and utterances in Washington made it awkward to have him on the payroll; 4) he had preferred charges of intimidation against Vice President E. P. Lott and Chief Pilot H. T. ("Slim") Lewis. The subject of Behncke's Washington activities remained unsettled. It was raised when big airlines replaced obsolete 110-m.p.h. planes with new airliners flying more than 150 m.p.h. Since the faster speed would make pilots travel the same distance in less time...
...George M. Lott Jr. of Chicago,No. 10 ranking U. S. amateur tennist: the Miami-Biltmore championship from Bryan M. ("Bitsy") Grant Jr. of Atlanta, 9-7, 6-4, 11-9; at Coral Gables. Fla. In the semi-finals Grant eliminated Francis X. Shields, No. 1 amateur, and Lott beat Cliff Sutter who ranks...
...Forest Hills, rain delayed the national singles championship after a first round in which the closest thing to a surprise was a set dropped by Lott to Herbert Bowman...