Word: players
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...came out on the red clay courts of the Chevy Chase Club to play their match. Wright was playing over his head but still there was no question left about the condition of Vines's game. It lacked the crispness that distinguished it last year. Wright, a graceful player, was very steady. Vines played with blinding speed but little accuracy, broke a racket on a smash but barely...
...single match, Captain D. M. Frame '32 will be pitted against Bryan Grant, seventeenth ranking national player. Grant is one of the best college players in the country and defeated W. L. Breese '31, a year ago. Wilmer Hines, No. 2 on the North Carolina team, is slated to meet J. M. Barnaby '32, who has been advanced to the corresponding position on the Harvard team. The rest of the line up for the visitors is not definite as yet but will probably be as indicated...
...proficiency in diverse activities. Professor Gushing collects everything which can be assembled, sorted and classified. (Harvard's Warren Anatomical Museum has his series of War helmets, a piece of barbed wire he fetched from a barricade.) Professor Penfield once coached the Princeton football team, is an ardent tennis player, farms extensive acreage near Lake Memphremagog, Quebec, likes good literature, good music. Best of all he enjoys a case of epilepsy...
...loss of Meiklejohn will be keenly felt by the Crimson players, as will also that of Captain Cabot and Hardy, all three men being out with leg injuries. Stars for the Eli fifteen are expected to be Captain Winter, University hockey player, Taylor, University football star, McCreary, and Heyworth. On the Harvard side Sherman and Whitney are the backs who have shown up particularly well this season, while Megaw and Wittausch have proved among the best forwards. Potter at centre has also played an excellent game...
...Wilmer Allison of Austin, Tex., ninth ranking U. S. tennis player: the North & South championship; at Pinehurst, beating U. S. Champion Ellsworth Vines Jr. 3-6, 6-4, 7-5, 5-7, 6-1 in the final...