Word: matches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unlighted coals of the fireplace I found a magazine, evidently a foreign one, with a screeching red cover. It turns out, of course, to be American, with the characteristically 100% efficient title of TIME. I read it from cover to cover as directed and replaced it, drawing lighted safety match slowly along up-curled white page margins of famed onetime magazine...
Raymond v. Tilden. "Lean Bill's" first real test came when he met Louis Raymond, youthful champion of South Africa. Someone "spread a report" that Raymond had a sore foot, that the referee had agreed to postpone the match, but that Tilden had refused. So the crowd cheered loudly when Raymond slashed to victory in the first set and threatened again in the third. Tilden was criticizing the linesmen's decisions, barking brusque commands at the ball boys, playing magnificent tennis. Tilden won three sets & match...
...watch his service closely. He then served four successive aces and soon brought the game score 9-to-8 in his favor. After that, spectators debated whether Tilden wilted or whether Lacoste became invincible, but the fact remained that Lacoste took three straight games and the championship. The match score...
...first" section porters are Matthew Pearson, Charles A. Henry, Felix Caldwell and tall, light-colored Hunter Newson. All respect Mr. Warner as their chief, even in the matter of billiards, which is their common pastime off duty. None of "the men he runs with" (i. e. Century colleagues) can match Mr. Warner for calmness and accuracy with a cue. His record billiard...
...both games the Crimson horsemen were confronted by strong handicap combinations. The Princemere opposition centered in the team work of F. H. Prince, veteran malletman and Harry east, rated one of the outstanding number 2 riders in the country. The second match with Myopia was featured by the two scores of W. H. White '28 and J. P. Mandell '29, both made in the first chucker of the encounter. Mandell's tally was a result of a fast gallop three quarters the length of the field...