Word: matches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...peace as the words of this judge. ... I submit to you that for a Judge to act as an understudy of Providence and deliver pronouncements which are nothing but the expression of his private prejudices . . . reflecting a mixture of prejudice, naivete, ignorance and abuse of power difficult to match . . . not only merits the severest reprimand, but raises a grave question of his fitness to sit on the bench anywhere in America...
...trading drives from the baseline neither Jacobs nor any other woman has the ability of Wills. Valiantly but with many an error Jacobs sped the ball toward her opponent's backcourt boundary, thereby failed to win from Wills the national women's singles championship. After the match Wills rested in the Forest Hills, L. I., clubhouse, resumed play. Paired with Mrs. Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, she won the doubles title against Mrs. Lawrence A. Harper & Miss Edith Cross. Wills and Molla Bjurstedt Mallory are the only women who have won the singles title five or more times. Mallory...
...near the Meadowbrook Club, center of U. S. polo, the slightest detail of international matches is made the subject of almost endless speculation. So important a detail as a postponement stirred unusually eager discussion. Would the added days give the U. S. four, new as a team to international play, a much-needed opportunity to work in W. Averell Harriman at No. 1, and to settle the contest for the No. 4 position? Every poloist loves and reveres the name of Devereaux Milburn, most famed No. 4 of all time. Meadowbrook fans had to scour their memories to recall...
...encircled by the gallery. None saw where the ball lighted, save that it plopped somewhere among the spectators. Everyone looked at everyone else. One spectator felt in his pocket, found the ball, in embarrassment dropped it on good ground. Not inexcusably Von Elm lost the hole, but won the match with Dr. (not dental) William Tweddell...
Spectators, players alike tittered at Walter Hagen, who was working for a news syndicate. A few days before, Hagen started from Oshkosh, Wis., for Menomonie, Wis., drove instead to Menominee, Mich., 300 miles distant, failed to keep an exhibition match appointment, had to apologize by telephone for his stupid error...