Word: matching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...little heartsore at the time when I think of what has been." Then, pensively, she added: "It's a pity, isn't it, this parting of two whom Allah seemed to have brought together to work His will by a harmonious, happy association ? Ours was a love match even in the sense in which you understand the term in the West...
...Harrison Dempsey was treated in Los Angeles (TIME, Aug. 17). Thus, last week, a gallery received Miss Helen Wills when she stepped on the courts of the West Side Tennis Club to play with Miss Mary K. Browne against Miss McKane and Miss Colyer of England in a doubles match that would decide the international women's series for the Wightman Cup. The match score stood at 3-all. Mrs. Mallory, after half an hour of sturdy driving with her leathery right arm, had trounced Miss Joan Fry of England, 6-3, 6-0. Miss Wills had mustered enough...
...sporting sheets-such, for examples, as the names of Lejeck, Rosenblatt, Sluitor. The former-Charles and Leo Lejeck-'discouraged the united efforts of the latter to become National Municipal Doubles Champions. The agile Ted Drewes of St. Louis defeated obstinate Eddie Jacobs for the singles title in a match which revealed that the gilded upper classes are not the only people who play tennis-but they play it best...
...East vs. West matches William Johnston, whose defeat on an off-day by the dependable tennis of Dr. George King (TIME, Aug. 10) caused many sport enthusiasts to proclaim him a doddering curmudgeon, went out to contend for a place on the U. S. team with Vincent Richards. Playing with the familiar wizardry that has made him, for many years, the most popular player in tennis, he met Richards' cannonball service with flashing drives, confused his net game with precise lobs, fought through an exhausting match...
...Davis Cup doubles tryout promised, at first, to end in an impasse. First Tilden and Johnston defeated Richards and Williams; then Williams and Richards beat Johnston and Tilden. A selection committee admitted that it could find nothing to choose between the two teams. They began a deciding match. Williams drove, volleyed; Richards served, smashed; they won the first set without loss of a game. "Wait till Tilden gets after them," grinned the crowd. But the Champion continued his erratic tennis. It was Johnston who got after them. His forehand drives were so fast they could hardly be seen; his service...