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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Vincent Richards, famed professional tennis player, in the finals of the U. S. Professional Championship, beat Karel Kozeluh, probably the greatest tennis player in the world, who has not lost a match for eight years. The score was 8-6, 6-3, 0-6, 6-2. Kozeluh took his shoes off after the second set and played in his stocking feet...
...Americans who were later to nose them out in a one goal victory were bickering on club piazzas about who should be on the team, some excited women played polo at the Westchester Biltmore. Canadian women and U. S. ones, they were getting ready to play the first match in an international series; after the second match the team that had scored the greatest total number of goals would be declared the winner. The U. S. women won the first match by a score of 5-2. Many spectators started to watch them but a cold wind blew most...
Violet May, at No. 3, played better polo than the other Canadians; rode better and handled her stick almost as well as the Prince of Wales does. Mrs. James Hewlett, at No. 3, scored four of the five U. S. goals and played better than anyone else in the match. Neither of the Lanier girls, Sally & Becky, scored against Canada...
Collett is a gallery player; she gets distance from the tees and sometimes throws it away with her putter; she walks along as though she were singing to herself; like Bobby Jones, her grim determination frightens her opponents and beats them before the match begins. As Bobby Jones beat Perkins 13 up in the Amateur at Braeburn, Collett beat stocky little Van Wie 13 and 12 in the Amateur at Hot Springs...
...Counsel were Messrs. Ropes, Gray, Boyden & Perkins; Messrs. Carter, Ledyard & Milburn.*All these materials are still used in the head of the modern safety match...