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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Grand Rapids, in ragged form. "Plop" went his ball into an impossible lie behind a tree. With a deep-faced mashie he hooked it up, out, around, and over a few more trees-popped it onto the green, putted in for a birdie 3. Cheered, he took the match from Watrous in 39 holes. Later he took one from Leo Diegel, sinking a great circling putt that put out Diegel's heart...
Coach Klevenow's little Vermont college team, which will play here next Saturday, was no match for a Yale team seemingly even more powerful than the Blue elevens of the last two years. Yale put on a terrific attack which netted them 19 first downs and eight touchdowns, five of the latter coming in the first half. With an apparently inexhaustible supply of brilliant backs, the Elis tore through the visitors' line almost at will. Bunnell, Kline, Cutler, and Wienecke starred in the Yale offense. The New Haven line was impregnable, and Middlebury's only gains were made by forward...
...progress in the game was impeded by lack of teaching. Harry Cowles was one of the first to take him in hand. It was his service developed under Coach Cowles' instruction, which, according to Harada's statement, enabled him last summer to defeat Patterson in the Davis Cup match against Australia...
...each other in the finals. Just as they had expected, Johnston played superbly. His drives bit with the malice of soundless white bees. He took the first set, 6-4, and a huge crowd stood up to shout for him. In the second set came the knot of the match. Johnston led at 9-8 and 30-40. Tilden was serving. If Johnston had taken that point, it would have been extremely unlikely that Tilden could have closed up a two-set lead, and already it was quite clear that this was not a tournament fertile in unlikelihoods...
...second, third, and Johnston the fourth, the challenger had another glowing chance. He had broken through Tilden's service in the third game, needed only a point to put him 3-1. He made, instead, four successive errors. A few minutes later Tilden stood at match point. Thrusting all the leverage of his body into his stroke, he served, and became for the sixth time, as Johnston waved his racquet at the fall, Lawn Tennis Champion...