Word: matching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they (the finalists in the national municipal course golf tournament) stood on the first tee waiting to begin the afternoon round of their match, a Western Union messenger dashed up with a yellow envelope for Serrick. He got into trouble on his drives, he overputted, topped his approaches. Later in the day, with McAuliffe 5 up, he spied his mother in the gallery. "They said you were sick," he whispered. The crumpled telegram read: MOTHER DANGEROUSLY ILL COME AT ONCE...
...Author. A dainty young lady was doing deck sports in the Mediterranean when the steward reached her with a radiogram: "Perennial Bachelor wins second Harper $2,000 novel contest,-" or words to match. Swiftly she informed her husband, Charles A. Corliss, of Englewood, N. J. Joyfully she recalled a visit to her former home, Claremont, Del., when her mother had coined the title. After four years ransacking attics, museums, once-popular song folios, old journals and letters, Peterson's Floral Adornments for the Home of Taste, Friendship Albums, memories of elders and bygone fashion-plates (perhaps too many...
Champion William Tilden gave a lesson to his partner, 17-year old "Sandy" Weiner. Griffin and Johnston profited by the lesson, took the match...
...most brilliant player in tennis. Others question this, declaring that it is only because he is capable of Arising from puerilities to superlatives, that his best seems better than another man's. The truth can never be known, but assuredly, in the third set of this match, he became what his supporters say he is-the pale resistless nonpareil of tennis. So it fell out that he and Richards took the next three sets, 6-3, 6-2, 6-2, the match, the National Doubles title...
Hawkes, paired with Miss Kathleen McKane of England, defeated Richards and Miss E. H. Harvey of England for the mixed doubles championship in a languid exhibition match...