Word: players
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...field with more first class foreign players than any U. S. championship in years was not the only thing that gave last week's tournament at Brookline a special importance. Coming after the closest Davis Cup matches on record, it was a chance to try out new combinations, like Lott & Stoefen, Crawford & McGrath. Furthermore, it gave U. S. tennis followers their first brief glimpse of the player who has become indisputably, for this year at least, the world's No. 1. Last winter Jack Crawford won the Australian singles championship at Melbourne, beating Keith Gledhill in the final...
From Brookes, who was one of the world's best players from 1907 to 1920, Champion Crawford received more than his notion of what kind of bat to use. Now a Melbourne manufacturer, in his middle 50's, Norman Brookes still plays formidable tennis. Last winter he teamed with Vines in a doubles match against Gledhill and Gerald Patterson, whose victory at Wimbledon in 1922 was the last by a British subject until Crawford's this year. Brookes's stubborn ambition to bring the Davis Cup back to Australia had something to do with the tour...
Frederick John Perry has a sleek appearance, a bland cosmopolitan manner which belies the fact that he taught himself tennis on London's public courts, became world's ping pong champion before he made a Davis Cup team. For England, at least, Perry is the No. 1 player of 1933. He beat McGrath. then Allison and Vines, then Cochet and Merlin in this year's Davis Cup matches. If he gets what he calls a "good win:" over Crawford, whom he has not played this year, it will be in the final at Forest Hills, because they...
Play in the second game had hardly begun when the West realized that for its rough play in the first game the East was giving back double measure. This time it was the Eastern player who shouldered his opponent out of the way, swung his mallet heedlessly in races for the ball. Hitchcock took the game's first bad tumble, his pony rolling over him, pinning his right leg, giving him a slight brain concussion. Play was stopped for 20 minutes, but Hitchcock insisted on going back. Shaken and aching, he rode automatically with an old campaigner...
...World Series games. During that amazing run Gehrig, who never wore a hat, over coat or vest until he was famous, has knocked out four home runs in one game (1932), 47 in a season (1927), won the title of the American League's most valuable player...