Word: players
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...play singles for the French Davis Cup team this year, because he was too old (34) it became easier to see how the challenge round against England would turn out. The weak member of the French team was un doubtedly young left-handed André Merlin, fourth ranking player of France, who had impressed Cochet and Lacoste, the non-playing captain, as more determined than Christian Boussus, who ranks a notch ahead of him. If Merlin lost his matches to Perry and Austin, Borotra and Brugnon would have to win the doubles, Cochet would have to win both his singles...
Perry v. Allison- If Austin, England's No. 1 singles player, could outclass Vines, who blew him off the court in straight sets at Forest Hills last year, it was clear that the mysterious influence which Roland Garros seems to have on U. S. Davis Cup teams was still at work last week. In the next match, it became clearer still. Perry won the first set, as his teammate had done, 6-1. Allison made him work in the second and at 4-5 on his own serve pulled out a game that went to deuce eight times...
...University of Washington freshman, won the 880-yd. free-style race in 10:15.4, clipping 5 sec. from another of Buster Crabbe's records. ¶Frank Parker, 17, of Milwaukee: the Bathing & Tennis Club invitation tennis tournament by beating big, good-natured Frank Shields, No. 5 U. S. player, in straight sets (6-4, 6-4, 6-2); at Spring Lake...
Even to Britons long accustomed to having U. S. golfers win the British Open Championship, the finish of last week's tournament at St. Andrews was something of a jolt. Not one U. S. player but two were in first place. Moreover, they were golfers whom England had heard very little about and seen only in losing matches on the U. S. Ryder Cup team. In the U. S. their names were more familiar. One was blond Craig Wood, professional at the Hollywood Golf Club of Deal, N. J., a phlegmatic, long-driving golfer who took up the game...
...miniature clubs at the age of 3. Hermon Shute got the news about the play-off when he was giving a lesson at the Ashland, Ohio, Country Club, stopped long enough to say: "I sort of hoped the weather would be bad. . . . The boy is a great bad-weather player." U. S. golf followers knew that young Densmore Shute was an able player in good weather also. He tied Gene Sarazen for third place in the U. S. Open on a hot June day in 1929. Now 28, medium-sized, dark-haired, lightly built and generally considered to have more...