Word: players
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more then five years since the Alligator, Rene LaCoste, toppled the American tennis titan, Tilden, and thus brought to France the Davis Cup. There it has remained despite the fact that in Shields, Lott, Allison, Van Ryn, and Vines, America has the greatest collection of tennis players alive and most probably the greatest individual player. Yet France continues to pour water on her already soggy courts and Champagne into the historic bowl...
...Friday nights throughout the winter the Orchestra congregates in the Hub Store fitting-room. Conductor Evans, a Chicago Symphony viola player, is the only paid professional in the lot. The concertmaster is Sidney James, a handsome, white-haired chemical engineer. One of the 'cellists is a brain-specialist- Dr. Adrien Henri Pierre Eugene Verbrugghen, son of Belgian Henri Verbrugghen who used to conduct the Minneapolis Symphony...
...fact that tennis there has all the earmarks of a major sport. Partly because the climate favors the game almost all year round, partly because a tennis tradition has grown up, there are over 50 courts. North Carolina's tennis competition with Duke is unique. There are 200 players on a side. Another reason is North Carolina's tennis coach, brown little John Kenfield who has been going down to Chapel Hill between seasons at the Lake Shore Country Club at Glencoe, Ill. since 1928. That spring the Tar Heels lost two matches. The next year they lost...
...crowd got the first day was the one set that small, slight Dr. Ricardo Tapia-who has been Mexican singles champion for the last five years, whose sister Maria is Mexico's woman champion and whose youngest brother Armando gives promise of becoming Mexico's best player-won from Wilmer Allison, in a match that Allison had to stir his stumps to win, 4-6, 6-3. 6-4. 6-4. Next day the U. S. team of George Lott & John Van Ryn disposed of Eduardo Mestre, whose father founded the Mexican Lawn Tennis Association, and Alfonso Unda...
With two spectacular plays late in the second period, the Princeton rugby team successfully overcame a five-point Harvard lead to win from the Crimson fifteen 6-5 at Soldiers Field Saturday. D. W. Meiklejohn 2G, making all Harvard's scores, was the outstanding player on the home team...