Word: stamina
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Women tennists lack the stubbornness as well as the stamina of men. Even Helen Jacobs, most tenacious tennist of her sex, was discouraged after that. In the third set the brilliant game with which she had beaten England's Kay Stammers the afternoon before went completely to pieces and she won only four points in the first four games. She got the next two games but that was merely the brave gesture of a player who knew she was beaten. The crowd, which had been rooting for Miss Marble, showed its understanding by rooting for the old champion...
Tradition of the Ascot Gold Cup, smartest sporting event of London's spring social calendar, forbids cheering at the finish. Another tradition of the race, 2½ miles over a hilly course, is that U. S.-bred horses lack stamina to win it. Only one to do so was James R. Keene's Foxhall (named after his son, famed Poloist Foxhall Keene...
...develop breath control when she thought seriously of becoming a singer. She proved her feeling for tone last week with Schubert's Du bist die Ruh' and the Ave Maria, her facility at triple-tonguing with Rimsky-Korsakoy's Hymn to the Sun, her physical stamina when at the end of her program she played three encores...
...probably only one of a great many that feel Harvard, permitted or promoted by President Conant, has spewed up a disgraceful, traitorous, communistic stink and hatched most of the un-American new deal, altogether the greatest threat to the United States stamina, popular liberty and morale since the Republic was founded...
...peanut shelling are not good manners at tennis matches. Never likely to rival either Tilden or Lenglen as a drawing card, Ethel Burkhardt Arnold is at least likely to amaze galleries by her size (4 ft. 11 in.), the speed of her awkward forehand drive, her almost incredible stamina. As Ethel Burkhardt, she ranked high among amateur women tennists in 1929 and 1930. She dropped out of major play for four seasons, re-emerged last summer as the wife of a Los Angeles rug salesman, to become the summer's tennis sensation. She won three important Eastern tournaments...