Word: matching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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General Business. 1) Mosul: the Turks, ever more than a match for European statesmen, muddled the whole matter (TIME, Sept. 14 and ante) by refusing to accept the League's adjudication of the Mosul border, and demanding that a plebiscite be taken, and the whole matter reopened. 2) China: Chao Hsin-Chu, Chinese Charge d'Affaires at London, begged the League to deliver his country from "the yoke of extra-territoriality." 3) Autria: a protest was entered against the Austrian budget, as set by the League, it being claimed that State employes would be paid less than starvation...
...good golf game, like a good short story, has a pattern; events climb up to a climax, poise for a moment, then climb down again. So it was with the match of Gunn against Jones. The knot in the chain, the plateau of the climb, the scene the reporters were waiting for, came at the 12th hole...
...rigid limbs were garmented in white; beside him reposed his "Blue Devil" Tarn O' Shanter. He, Jean Borotra, French Davis Cup competitor, had just been smitten unconscious by a tennis ball rebounding from the racquet of the Australian Gerald Patterson in the fourth set of an international doubles match at Forest Hills, L. I. On the day previous, Patterson had beaten Lacoste in the singles, Borotra had trounced Anderson. Thus, with the team score tied, much had depended on the doubles, and the chances for French victory on the work of brisk Borotra, who now lay still and pallid...
Kind hands massaged his temples; sprinkled water on his faint cheeks; after two minutes he bounded to his feet. The crowd huzzahed. Encouraged the Frenchmen ran out the last set which gave them the match...
...next match was Borotra against Patterson. A drizzling rain fell during this match-and so did Patterson. The fifth match was not played; for France had won the necessary three out of five and the right to meet the U. S. team at Philadelphia...