Word: matching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...third game of the second set of their match at Cannes?a match which has been given as much publicity as the conference of Locarno?had just ended. Miss Wills led, 3-0. Mile. Lenglen had won the first set, 6-3. Both had been, at the beginning, too nervous to play well and too wary to divert with any spectacular activities the people who since eight in the morning had poured into Cannes along the highroad from Nice and Monte Carlo. Helen Wills seemed to be thinking too much. Suzanne Lenglen's nerves were twittering. Regal in pink silks...
...handsome, impassive Greek mask of her face was weary drawn. Lenglen evened the score again, Wills took the odd game?and then occurred that curiously dramatic incident which gave all the U. S. sporting sheets an opportunity to say that Miss Wills had been cheated out of the match by the stupidity of an Englishman. The score was 40-15. She needed only one point for the game and set. Lenglen's return seemed to fall outside the line. Miss Wills sure she had won the set, started to change courts, when the linesman?Cyril Tolley, one-time British amateur...
...staccato gesture of despair for Tolley's crumbling intellect, his blindness. "Out, out," shouted the spectators, confident that they could see better than Mr. Tolley, whose stool was a yard from the baseline. Possibly the ball was out; possibly the decision kept Miss Wills from winning the greatest match of her life. No one will ever know. Suzanne Lenglen, against whom some equally dubious decision had been called in the first set, ran out the set 8-6, and a moment later was borne from the court on the shoulders of her worshipers, her purple face peering, like a ribald...
...LaCoste's eyelids, as he mopped his face with a towel, were heavier than ever. The next set would see a change of things. It did. Leaping, slamming, driving, smashing the dissipated Frenchman out-volleyed, outguessed, out-stroked Richards, took set and match with ease...
Brown, in the 115-pound class and Churchill with the 145 pounders are wrestling in their usual places. There will be no heavyweight match this afternoon...