Word: parkers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...challenge round as practically won after the U. S. beat Germany in the interzone final last fortnight (TIME, July 26), to feel much less certain. Henry Wilfred ('"Bunny") Austin, England's No. i, had already mopped up the court with the U. S. No. 2, young Frank Parker, 6-3, 6-2, 7-5. Now it looked as though Hare, previously considered likely to lose both his singles matches, was highly likely to beat Parker. If Great Britain could win the doubles match as well, or if Austin, always inspired in Davis Cup play, could reverse his straight...
...days later U. S. alarm was some-what allayed when Budge & Gene Mako beat F. H. D. Wilde & C. R. D. Tuckey, 6-3, 7-5, 7-9. 12-10. That left Budge and Parker the job of winning between them at least one of the last two singles matches to clinch...
They did better by winning both, clinching the Cup by 4 matches to 1. Parker, playing some of the surest tennis of his career, almost blasted Hare, wildly smashing and volleying, off the court (6-2, 6-4, 6-2). In what then amounted to an exhibition match, Donald Budge easily outplayed Bunny Austin (8-6, 3-6, 6-4, 6-3). Thus the Cup put up in 1900 by Dwight Filley Davis was returned to the U. S., for the first time since 1926, by the youngest U. S. Cup team in history...
Died. Henry Parker Willis, 62, economist, professor of banking at Columbia University; of heart disease; in Oak Bluffs, Mass. Technical adviser to Virginia Senator Carter Glass, Professor Willis helped draft the Federal Reserve Act, the Banking Act of 1933, the Federal Farm Loan...
Died. George S. Parker, 73, board chairman of Parker Pen Co.; in Chicago...