Word: players
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Championship, One of the most fiercely competitive of all games, amateur tennis has no international championship. To answer the constantly perplexing question as to who is the best amateur player in the world, the chief contenders must rely on meeting either in team play for the Davis Cup of in the grand tour's series of national championships. In the days when Tilden, Richards and Johnston were the world's three top-ranking players and the U. S. won the Davis Cup with monotonous regularity, the U. S. Singles was as great a championship as any tennist could...
...having achieved almost single-handed the return of the Davis Cup to the U. S. this year for the first time since 1926, and having smashed his way to an unprecedented triple victory in the All-England singles, doubles, and mixed doubles at Wimbledon, is the best amateur tennis player in the world...
...Jiro Yamagishi, France's No. 2 Yvon Petra, England's No. 2 Charles Edgar Hare. England's No. 1 Bunny Austin was not there, but Budge had already given him a conclusive beating this year in the Davis Cup challenge round. The player who seemed to stand firmly in Donald Budge's path, however, was none of these. At Forest Hills for the first time in his life and representing his nation there for the first time since the War was the man who is currently supposed to be at least the world's second...
...from his early badgering of his teachers at Princeton, where he graduated in 1909. One day when he was a student at the University of Pennsylvania Law School he tried to get into a football game free by offering to play any instrument in the band which lacked a player. He was handed an E-flat tuba with the music for Hail Pennsylvania in another key, and transposed it by reading the bass clef as the treble and subtracting the proper number of flats, later working out an explanatory equation. Today Lawyer Scott plays the French horn in the Germantown...
...sports are more ancient than lawn bowling. It was played in 12th-Century England and by the time of Henry VIII had provoked such a riotous fever of ambling that even that riotous monarch put it down by law. First notable U. S. player was George Washington, who had a bowling green* at Mount Vernon. A fresh-air cousin of indoor bowling, lawn bowling, recently revived, is nowadays a decorous game which appeals chiefly to oldsters, who find its 3½ lb. bowl (ball) easier to handle than the 16-lb. indoor ball. Last week 160 of its foremost enthusiasts...