Word: scoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when Helen Wills Moody stayed in California. They played their first set in a pouring rain and Carolyn Babcock won 6-3. Next day they went out to finish and Mrs. Harper, with a day to get over the shock of being outplayed by an unranked opponent, ran the score up to 5-2 and set point. That was as far as she could get. Carolyn Babcock, with a forehand so much like Ellsworth Vines's that it was easy to believe she had learned it from his coach, Mercer Beasley, played the kind of calculating tennis that Beasley...
...teammate Wilmer Allison; 6-8, 13-11, 8-6, 6-2 in the doubles, paired with Keith Gledhill, against Allison and John Van Ryn, U. S. champions. ¶ Fred Tomlin, professional trapshooter of Glassboro. N. J.: the Open Championship in the Grand American trapshooting tournament; with a perfect score of 200 targets at a 16-yd. rise; at Vandalia. Ohio. Frank Troeh of Portland, Ore. won the shoot-off for second place against three other shooters who had tied with...
...hand. Canada's Leander crew was 8 ft. behind Italy, England was fourth by 6 ft. more. A crowd of 95,000 saw the Olympic Torch extinguished, the 1936 Olympic Games promised to Berlin in the ceremonies that closed the most successful modern Olympiad on record. Final point score (three points for first place, two for second, one for third): First Second Third Points United States 39 32 21 202 Italy 9 12 11 63 Japan 7 6 4 37 Sweden 9 3 3 36 France 8 4 2 34 Finland 5 5 8 33 Germany...
...band. They waged a little war of their own, hiding by day, raiding German supply trains by night for food to keep from starving. One of their number finally betrayed them. The 15 guerillas were captured, court-martialed and sentenced to death, for not only had they killed a score of German soldiers but military authorities imposed the death penalty automatically on enemy soldiers who passed more than a fortnight behind the lines without surrendering. An orderly read out the names: "Henriet, Quartermaster of the Luneville Dragoons, son of M. Henriet & Mme nee de Gail." A German officer sprang...
...high jump, 400-metre run, 110-metre hurdles, discus throw, pole-vault, javelin throw, 1,500-metre run) went to huge James ("Jarring Jim") Bausch, insurance salesman and onetime University of Kansas footballer, who was in sixth place before the last five events, finished with a world's record score of 8,462.23. Second was Matti Jarvinen's brother Akilles with...