Word: ryn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After five days of play, Perry, Budge, Grant, Parker, Mangin, Wood and Riggs reached the fourth round safely. In the match to determine the quarter-finalists, however, Riggs had the misfortune to play John Van Ryn, onetime Davis Cup player. Unseeded and unranked because of insufficient play, Riggs was eliminated...
...Donald Budge & Gene Mako, Carolin Babcock & Marjorie Gladman Van Ryn, Alice Marble & Gene Mako: U. S. tennis championships at Men's, Women's and Mixed Doubles respectively; at the Longwood Cricket Club, near Boston...
...international sport is neither long nor glorious. At tennis, it consists of the annual beating which the Mexican Davis Cup team receives from the U. S. Last week the four young Mexicans selected to take part in this ceremony arrived in Houston, Tex. to tackle Wilmer Allison, John Van Ryn, Donald Budge and Bryan ("Bitsy") Grant...
...star, made Grant scramble but the best he got was one set to Grant's three. Esteban Reyes, nicknamed "Pajaro" (Bird), Mexico's No. 1, got five games in three sets against Budge. Next day, Allison played 18 holes of near-par golf, joined his partner Van Ryn to run through Flavio Martinez and Marco Antonio Mestre 6-0, 6-2, went back to the links for another nine holes which he started with a birdie. The series became a clean sweep the following day when Grant beat Reyes, 6-4, 13-11, 6-2, and Budge polished...
...match finished, Midge stood by to watch her man and Gregory Mangin (who later won the men's singles) play Karl Schroeder and James Gilbert Hall in the final of the men's doubles. Though a Davis Cup player for the past seven years, John Van Ryn's marked ability in doubles surprisingly vanishes in singles. Last week even his doubles form was way off. Having collected the silverware for the family, Mrs. Van Ryn sighed at her husband's defeat, remarked: "Tennis is great for domestic happiness...