Word: matched
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...into the closing rounds, there have been but few notable upsets. Although several of the seeded players have been forced to default, the only one to be defeated was K. B. Daggett '30, who was put out by J. K. Peterson, 1L, in the fourth round. Another close match was that in which J. M. Barnaby '32, winner of last year's Class B tournament, defeated D. T. Field '31 in two tight sets...
...doubles tournament has reached the third round with no action of the seeded teams. The number one pair, Harris Coggeshall 1L and M. T. Hill '32, won their first match by default...
...envy of many. Last week, just returned from Canada, he spoke long and wittily at the 40th anniversary banquet of the British Printers' Union, and to him listened a colleague - Rt. Hon. Frederick Owen Roberts, Minister of Pensions. When it came time for Minister Roberts to match the earthy eloquence of the Lord Privy Seal, he arose, a somewhat pitiful sight, embarrassed, blushing, twitching at his jacket and ruffling his hair. Finally, he collapsed beneath the table, then suddenly uprose again and in his hand was a fiddle. Upon this fiddle he bent his bow and fiddled out such...
Among the professional tennis players who gathered for their championship last week at Forest Hills, L. I., were many whose jobs at country clubs keep them teaching children and patting easy serves across to elderly ladies who want to reduce-keep them, in short, from ever getting a decent match. Most of these had not come to Forest Hills in the hope of winning but because they wanted to play some tennis...
Changing courts, Kozeluh rubbed his face with a towel and took a bit of lemon. As he walked back to the baseline after a point he often shook his head-the only gesture left in his gay repertory. Richards ran the score to 5-3, to advantage in the match game, lost the point and then stepping back for a slam, got the ball on the wood of his racket and netted it. Kozeluh won the game and Richards, on his next serve, double-faulted twice for the first time that day-too tired to make any resistance...