Word: robins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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William Tatem Tilden II, tennis tycoon, conducted a round-robin tournament with a group of youngsters at Augusta, Ga. For the first time in many a year there were sweating battles to determine who should be members of the U. S. Davis Cup team. The following were picked last week to play in the first match against Mexico...
John Hennessey, 27, a Tennessee inhabitant of Indianapolis, who was the only one to lose no matches in the round-robin...
...under his wing, organized what is known as an elimination tournament to select an opponent for him. But the result resembled that of the struggle between the Kilkenny cats, for when it was all over his several warriors had eliminated each other so thoroughly by a kind of round robin process that no one survived to make any claims to the honor...
...Senator Caraway of Arkansas had already framed a bill requiring all lobbyists to register upon arrival and state their business. Senator Walsh of Massachusetts introduced another such measure last week and the defeated Inquisitors determined to look back into the power lobby to see just who did kill Cock Robin...
...rough Riff Robin Hood is the protagonist in "The Desert Song", a tuneful expose of Mohammedan love-technique now on view at the Majestic Theatre. Yelept "The Red Shadow" (rhymes with "go, snow, or know") this brigand leads his turbaned tenors to several well-earned choral triumphs over Post 13 of the Moroccan Legion...