Word: matches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...studious, book-writing, sketch-drawing Helen Wills seemed, in her stiff, skeletonized cap merely efficient. Señorita de Alvarez came out onto the court in .a brilliant red sweater and turban, took off the sweater, changed the scarlet turban to one of bottle green. If she won the match the world would have another Suzanne Lenglen, tempestuous, temperamental, a little spoiled, quite regal...
Tilden's Loss. Famed William T. Tilden II, said after the Wills-de Alvarez match: "The last set was the greatest ever played between two women...
...Washington Treaty ratio became the theme of many a jest. When U. S. Chief Delegate Gibson and British Admiral John Rushworth Jellicoe returned from an informal golf match they waggishly remarked that their scores were "in the 5-5 ratio...
...partner of Dillon, Read & Co., most people know Dean Mathey as a tennis player who, in 1916, was ranked No. 10 by the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association. Last winter, he and Watson M. Washburn (Harvard man) forced Borotra and Brugnon, French invading champions, to a five-set match before accepting defeat in the Heights Casino indoor tournament in Brooklyn. "For an old banker," Mr. Mathey thinks this highly commendable. One other trustee, Frederick P. Scott, 1900, was elected to the Board from the Sixth Region (Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North & South Dakota, Montana, Wyoming...
...first period of the Harvard--Princeton match was scoreless, and was marked by good up and down the field playing on the part of both teams. W. H. White '28 was the first to tally with a shot from scrimmage near the goal in the second period. This advantage was quickly eradicated by Borden, number 2 rider for the Tigers, who scored once in that period and then was largely instrumental in the scoring of his team's two counters in the next chukker. During the last three periods Borden continued to dominate the play, scoring three goals himself...