Word: ryn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...partner, George Patrick Hughes, would speedily lose a majority of their five matches. Their opponents were Sidney B. Wood Jr., who won the British championship at Wimbledon fortnight ago; his good friend Francis Xavier Shields who defaulted to him in the Wimbledon finals; and George Lott Jr. & John Van Ryn, Wimbledon doubles winners, often called the best team in the world...
Wood, off his game the first day, lost to Austin but Shields beat Perry. When Lott & Van Ryn disposed of Perry & Hughes, the result seemed more than ever a foregone conclusion. The next day Wood, who had beaten him easily at Wimbledon, lost to Perry 6-3, 8-10, 6-3, 6-3. In the last match, balloon-trousered Bunny Austin came up against Shields, speedily defeated his large and impressive opponent whom he had never beaten before, 8-6, 6-3, 7-5. The conclusion reached by spectators was, however, that Austin, Perry & Hughes would surely lose to France...
Three other championships were decided before Wimbledon Week (which | lasts a fortnight) was over. George Lott Jr., who last year declined to be a "tennis bum" but still tours the world playing tennis, and John Van Ryn, who jumps around the court as though his legs were pogo-sticks, won the doubles championship in a long match against Henri Cochet and Jacques Brugnon ? 6-2, 10-8, 9-11, 3-6, 6-3. Two British women, Mrs. D. C. Shepherd-Barron and Phyllis Mudford, be came women's doubles champions. Mixed doubles champions were George Lott...
...Newark, N. J. Evening News, announced that he would probably play little tennis in 1931 except to defend his title at Forest Hills. Clifford Sutter last week was winning the Tri-State Tour- nament in Memphis, Tennessee. The other two, Shields and Wood, together with Henri Cochet; John Van Ryn; Jean Borotra, who airplaned back to Paris for business between matches; Bunny Austin, balloon-trousered British Davis Cup player; George Lyttleton Rogers, a big Irishman with a hooked nose; Jiro Satoh, the champion of Japan; and Gregory Mangin and George Lott were last week playing in the greatest single event...
...Wood were the only Americans left in the tournament. Their opponents, respectively, were Jean Borotra, who had made Queen Mary laugh by returning a volley while sitting on his haunches, and England's Frederick J. Perry, who, playing an erratic but brilliant game, had eliminated John Van Ryn in the fifth round...