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Word: nationale (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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A solemn group of sportsmen spent last week sitting in pairs at tables in Cedar Point, Ohio, propelling cylindrical pellets about checkered rectangles, making them sally, mingle, jump one another, then inching them ignominiously back to safe corners. Officials fumed impotently. For 20 hrs. four of the most potent contenders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Piddlers | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

Checkerman Long, 24-year-old telegraph clerk, has long been a checker prodigy. At 15 he watched a national tournament knowingly, critically. Irritated, national contenders challenged him to play. He beat them. Two years later he won the U. S. Championship. Two years ago he was on a team which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Piddlers | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

Tennis. Eastern lawn (at Rye, N. Y.)- Singles, William Tatem Tilden II of Philadelphia; doubles, Tilden & Frank Hunter of New Rochelle, N. Y.; women's singles, Sarah Palfrey of Brookline, Mass.; women's doubles, Edith Cross & Mrs. Lawrence A. Harper of California. National junior (at Culver, Ind.)-Singles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Titles | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

German national lawn (at Hamburg)- Singles, Christian Boussus of France; doubles, Jacques Brugnon & Christian Boussus of France; women's singles, Frau von Reznicek.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Titles | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

Lawn Bowling. National singles (at Montclair, N. J.)-William Kidd of Chicago.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Titles | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

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