Word: ryans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Helen Wills stepped out to despatch Miss Elizabeth Ryan in the women's finals. The court was juicy as buttered asparagus with a recent rainfall, a circumstance which boded ill for Miss Wills. Both players wore spiked shoes, but before the first set was six games old, Miss Ryan was taking off her shoes. The gallery giggled. She tried on a pair with soles of crape rubber. They skidded. She tried on a pair borrowed from William M. Johnston. The gallery tittered again. Miss Ryan removed her footwear altogether, began to scuttle about the court in stocking feet...
...minimum provided for by New York State law. At first the shares were distributed among its directors for the most part; subsequently, they became concentrated in individual hands, and control of the Company passed in rapid succession from Henry B. Hyde to James Hazen Hyde to Thomas F. Ryan to the elder J. P. Morgan and finally to T. Coleman du Pont. Mr. Ryan placed stock in the hands of trustees for the benefit of the policyholders, and subsequent owners followed his example...
...Australians Patterson and Hawkes took the doubles from Malcolm Hill and Henry Johnson. In an exhibition doubles match, Miss Wills and Miss Mary K. Browne were beaten by Miss Eleanor Goss and Miss Elizabeth Ryan. The last player, home from England, had not played tennis in the U. S. for 13 years...
...Wimbledon. The All-England Tennis Tournament gathered net notables to Wimbledon and the fun began. Who were the stars ? Jean Borotra of France, present holder of the championship; J. O. Anderson of Australia, long a Davis Cup player ; Suzanne Lenglen of France trying again; Miss Elizabeth Ryan of California. The leading men in the U. S. delegation there were Roy Casey of California and John Hennessey of Indiana. Belgium, Holland, India, Germany, Greece were among the other nations represented...
...best drawing card of the early rounds was in the women's singles-Miss Ryan against Miss Lenglen. Miss Ryan began with agility, won two games, almost won the third, and then weakened, lost, lost, lost, 12 games straight-and the match...