Word: players
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...through with Dorothy Round, 6-3, 6-2, the U. S. needed only one more point for the series. It was up to Mrs. Arnold to get it in her match with "Kay" Stammers whose fast left-handed drive has helped make her England's No. 3 player, who eats lump sugar during her matches and who, in the Kent Championship last June, won a love set from Mrs. Moody. Mrs. Arnold...
...muscles, a set of puppeteer's strings; the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems, a network of complex paths, lanes, byways and highways through which the human soul moves strangely. To know the complexities of the neural ways and cords and of the cerebral mass requires a chess player's intricate mentality. To dare to touch them with a knife requires unpassionate fingers...
...England's stylistic little "Bunny" Austin, the choice which confronted Captain Wear seemed quite likely to decide possession of the Cup. Wood is a tennis genius who, almost unbeatable on his best days, can play like a second-rater on his bad days. Allison is a dependable, aggressive player who, though he loses most of his important matches, always works hard and makes his opponent do likewise. If he chose Allison, Captain Wear might not see his team win the Cup but at least it would be a close call. If he chose Wood, and Wood...
...that where to put this year's will be a puzzle. It was put up for competition in 1900 by onetime Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis. Last week, Dwight Davis Jr., the donor's son, was beaten 6-3, 4-6, 4-6 by an unseeded player named Frederic Gaskell in the quarter finals of the Suffolk County, N. Y., singles championship...
...lucky to get on the Canary Island team. ... I'd rather play basketball than tennis anyway. . . ." Invited to go abroad mainly for the experience, he promptly distinguished himself by reaching the semi-finals of the Wimbledon championship. He was given Sidney Wood's place as a singles player on the Davis Cup team. The importance of Budge to the U. S. Davis Cup campaign lies in the fact that Germany and England each have one singles player who can be counted on to win two matches. Last week, experts expected that Germany's Baron Gottfried von Cramm...