Word: matching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then turn it upside down and read it just as clearly and perfectly. Can any of the multitude of TIME-readers match...
There was no great crisis in this match, no moment that spectators could record in their diaries. Memorable instants there were to be sure-Von Elm chipping with his mashie around and over a stymie to win the second hole; Jones failing by six inches to make the hole in one; Jones conceding a hard putt to Van Elm because the latter was bothered by cries from the gallery; Von Elm returning this courtesy; Jones carefully lining a putt on the 17th which he must sink if the match was to go on . . . and Jones missing that putt and standing...
...Match play began. Von Elm, weak against tall Ellsworth Augustus of Cleveland, barely managed to take the match on the 19th hole. Richard Jones, Massachusetts state champion, pressed Robert Tyre Jones hard before succumbing by one hole. M. B. Stevenson played a family match against long-driving young Roland MacKenzie. Long an intimate of the lad's parents, Mr. Stevenson sent Mrs. MacKenzie Sr. a telegram expressing profound sorrow at having been forced to eliminate her son. Francis Ouimet and Charles Evans, both former title holders, came through the early rounds with ease; they might, if Jones relapsed, meet...
This moment embraced the four seconds required to play the fifth point of the ninth game of the fifth set of William Tatem Tilden's match against Henri Cochet of France. Tilden lost the point. He lost the match. He has lost other matches, but never one like this. Cochet, who had won the second and third sets and had a lead of 4-1 in the fifth, seemed sure to win when Tilden started his rally. He had Cochet 40-15. And then, his fire waned, the reserve which had never failed before failed...
...just inside the corner gate of the Soldiers Field inclosure. The old cage, built more than 30 years ago, had long outlived its usefulness, and the new cage will be 160 feet square, large enough for even modified outfield practice. Outside the structure will be of gray stucco, to match the Stadium...