Word: matches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Helen Wills, to describe whose game sporting writers resort to increasing jumbles of superlatives, was worthy of their praise and easily defeated Joan Fry and Mrs. Kathleen McKane Godfree. Molla Mallory, with more difficulty, did the same thing. Miss Wills and Mrs. Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman won a doubles match for the U. S.; Eleanor Goss and Charlotte Hosmer Chapin lost one. Helen Jacobs lost the only U. S. singles match to Betty Nuthall sixteen-year-old-English girl who defeated Mrs. Mallory at Wimbledon. The score was five matches...
...tongue. "Lookit," he said, "what do you say we play a joke?" Stealthy as a murderer he approached Joseph Castro, stuck a little tee of gum on the end of Mr. Castro's nose. When spectators giggled, the joker still stealthy as a murderer, became inspired to touch a match to the little tee he had built. Dreaming of a sunny beach, Joseph gave his nose a little wriggle, opened his eyes, squealed, tried to beat off the flames with his visor which caught the flame, dashed it into his eyes, mouth, hair. If he lives, Joseph Castro may have...
...bars, cigars, swimming pools, expensive caddies, grill rooms and fat greens fees there are masses of citizens who play good golf. Carl F. Kauffman, Pittsburgh, plays the best. Kauffman last week won the National Public Links Tournament, at the Ridgewood Club, Cleveland, defeating William Serrick, New York, in a match play. Kauffman lost the first three holes in the final, won them back and three more, lost the lead, and won on the 37th hole. His round was 77, the loser...
Twelve sets would be a long tennis match. Mrs. Charlotte Hosmer Chapin and Arnold W. Jones played the equivalent of twelve love sets (72 games) to defeat Mrs. William Endicott and George Lott in the finals for the Rhode Island State Championship. It was thought to be the longest tournament mixed doubles match on record. Scores...
...celebrated Travis traps of the Garden City (L. I.) Golf Club, where he was for years the spare, silent, deliberate presiding genius. It was in one of his own bunkers, the cavernous one, at the left of the 18th green at Garden City, that Mr. Travis surrendered a bitter match to Jerome D. Travers, who, with H. Chandler Egan and E. M. Byers, succeeded him as leading U. S. amateur golfer...