Word: match
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...devout in Warsaw went to mass. A few hours later they flocked to an international soccer match, were well pleased to see the Poles whip the Hungarians, 4-to-2. In bright red trolleys still carrying advertisements of German products, they rode to see Shirley Temple in The Little Princess. They bought lottery tickets in the tobacco shops. The best people still went to lunch at 2:30 and dragged it out until 6, sipped Kimmel at the streamlined Cafe Adria, laughed heartily over Geneva, a play by brash old Bernard Shaw about three dictators named Herr Battler, Signer Bombardone...
...August 1914, as German troops were slogging through Belgium, the eyes of the sport world focused for a moment on a tennis court at Forest Hills, N. Y. There, in what was probably the most dramatic tennis match ever played, Australasian Tennists Norman Brookes and Anthony Wilding, on the eve of joining their British regiments, captured the Davis Cup from U. S. Tennists R. Norris Williams, Maurice McLoughlin and Tom Bundy...
...Merion courts last week saw no such titanic struggle as the never-to-be-forgotten Brookes-McLoughlin match of 1914, in which the American beat the Australian 17-15 in the first set. What last week's matches lacked in suspense, however, they made up for in surprise...
Riggs was expected to win one singles match last week-most likely against Quist, whom he had defeated in the Davis Cup Challenge Round last year. Beyond this lonely hope, few tennis experts expected much from the U. S. team. But at the end of the first day's matches, the experts realized that they had sold Riggs and Parker short...
...pride, 3 & 2. Last week the tables were turned. Long-striding Betty Jameson pulled away from Miss Kirby in the first nine holes and never let her catch up. Two up at the ninth, 4 up at the 18th, 2 up at the 27th, Miss Jameson took the match and title on the 34th green with the identical score by which her opponent beat her two years...