Word: meadow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...13?International matches at Meadow Brook...
...this threat Impresario White made clarion answer. He declared that this year's Maverick would be "the most stupendous spectacle ever seen in America." According to tradition it will be held at full moon in a long mountain meadow. It is strictly in costume, the more outlandish and inane the better. Lunches are packed, fires are kindled, and as the afternoon's spectacle progresses, sitters (thousands come, anyone who has the price of admission) munch and watch. The colonists sell their batiks, paintings, arty gadgets. Newsboys hawk a special edition of the bulletin. Late in the afternoon a costume promenade...
Boys are always playing polo on the Hitchcock field. Even during the juvenile depopulation that falls upon Long Island in August because mothers mysteriously believe this to be an unhealthy season, young candidates for next year's Meadow Lark Club are being watched by Mrs. Hitchcock and coached by a onetime British cavalry sergeant named Gaylord. On the present squad, potential internationalists of the future, are Skiddy von Stade Jr., Julian Peabody Jr. (a Hitchcock grandson), Devereux Milburn Jr., Jack Milburn, David Dows Jr., Jimmy Curtis, Marshall Field Jr., Coolidge Chapin, Charlie von Stade, Jack Windmill, Nelson Brown, Scott...
That the team will be picked from a national rather than an exclusively Meadow Brook squad is a salute to the British. After repeated defeats the British have accepted the introduction of hard-riding, bumping, slashing and swatting to the "gentleman's game." Particularly they have tried to develop the Milburn-Hitch-cock style of tremendous hitting...
...Sidney B. Wood Jr., 18-year-old tennis upstart of New York, winner last fortnight of the Sea Bright Bowl: the Meadow Club tournament at Southampton, L. I.. beating Davis Cupman Wilmer Allison of Texas 3-6, 6-3, 2-6. 6-2. 6-4. in the final. In the semi-final he beat Frank X. Shields. 20, of Manhattan, who eliminated William T. Tilden...