Word: pattersons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great Anzacs battered down three little Japs at Providence, R. I., won the final of the American Zone Davis Cup play. Gerald L. Patterson won first for Australia by tantalizing Zenzo Shimizu with neat chops, then opening up his driving play and net smashes. Pat O'Hara Wood went five lively sets but finally pinned down slippery, stinging Sunao Okamoto. Wood and Patterson wore out Okamoto and Takeichi Harada in three tense sets of doubles. In two superfluous singles matches, Wood put by Shimizu, Patterson toyed with Okamoto...
...Indianapolis, two other Australian Davis Cup men, Brian I. C. Norton and Gerald Patterson (team captain) succumbed in turn to John Hennessey, "Indianapolis cyclone." The event was a rain-soaked Western championship, top honors in which the "cyclone" did not quite sweep away from towering Will Tilden, national champion...
...Patterson, Supervisor of the Medical Service of the National Tubercular Association: "Calmette's position in the scientific world is such that any announcement on his part is worth the utmost respect...
...Haverford, Pa., furious left-handed service, an upward-ripping backhand like Gerald Patterson's, crashing overhead blows stopped all the collegiate courtsmen who pitted themselves singly against much tanned Wallace Scott of the University of Washington. Arnold W. Jones of Yale, the other finalist, was dismayed by the ball's perpetual presence on his side...
...Liberty spread her wings and flew, just as Messrs. Patterson and McCormick had planned. How high? If one can believe an advertisement published in the Chicago Tribune the day following Liberty's appearance on the newsstands, there had been sold in one day the entire first issue-725,000 copies. (According to another account in the Tribune the number was 735,000-at any rate, a great number...