Word: matching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tommy Creavy, 17-year-old assistant professional at Mamaroneck, N. Y., recently a caddy, beat Golfer Johnny Farrell, open champion, in a 19 hole match in the quarter-finals of the Metropolitan Professional Championship. Gene Sarazen won the tournament...
Having played two matches in Europe to determine the unofficial world's professional tennis championship, Vincent Richards and Karel Kozeluh were to play three more in the U. S. But since Kozeluh had won the first two he had only to win the third to clinch the series. This, last week, in Manhattan, by scores of 6-4, 6-4, 3-6, 6-3, Kozeluh did. The match was played on Sunday; as soon as it began, Kozeluh and Richards were served with summonses. After that they went on playing...
...member of a family famous in Prague for their sporting activities; when 12, he had saved up enough money which he made from serving as a ball-boy to buy himself a tennis racquet. In 1919, not having touched a racquet for five years, he lost a five-set match to Washburn; since then he has not lost any match which he wanted to win. Lacoste, Cochet, Borotra, Tilden-these he has not played because they are, so to speak, amateurs. Kozeluh is a small brown man, as flexible as rubber, as quick as a squirrel; he speaks English badly...
...spoke except to his caddie whom he called "laddie." They saw Voigt go one down in the morning round; in the afternoon, Voigt lost the sixth hole when his ball landed in a brook at the foot of the green. He kept on losing holes after that and the match was over on the 14th after they both played in from the rough around the green to halve the hole. Perkins, for the first time since he had started his afternoon round, threw away his cigaret without lighting another. They walked back to the club house in a drizzle; Perkins...
...yards with a brook at the depth of the fairway, just below the green. Smart golfer', use an iron from the tee for a long pitch to the green rather than take a chance on driving into the brook. When Jones and Perkins went out to play their match, Perkins took an iron out, Jones took a wooden club−and a six for the hole to Perkins' four. Perkins was one up until the fourth; then Jones evened the match. At the end of the morning round, Jones was 6 up; at the end of the match...