Word: steadier
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...Virginia, none for V. M. I. Wilmer Hines and Lenoir Wright. No. 1 and No. 2 for North Carolina, won the doubles title together and then played each other in the singles final. It was a match they had played many times before, on the same courts. Hines, steadier and stronger overhead, lost the first set. then used the advantage of Wright's surprise to win the next two easily. After the rest Wright, a Phi Beta Kappa man who prefers brawn to brain on a tennis court, ran up a 3-1 lead. Hines, steady, methodical, clever, whittled...
...bases for a force play, he walked Dickey. It was sound strategy but it did not work. Chapman, next batter, smashed the first pitch for a sharp single to right. scoring two runs. Warneke was steady after that, except for a few moments in the fifth, but Gomez was steadier. Score for the game was New York 5, Chicago 2. Score for the pitchers: Gomez, 8 strikeouts. 9 hits, i walk; Warneke. 7 strikeouts. 10 hits. 4 walks...
...this time Devens was putting on one of his usual exhibitions of bewildering curves. His amazingly fast delivery was steadier than ever, and most effective in the corner-cutting outshoots, which start from a good distance to the side of the pitcher's box and fade away over the left quarter of the home plate...
...side' of the net was brown, wiry Karel Kozeluh who has often been professional champion of the world and was runner-up to Vincent Richards for this title last summer. Often have tennis-lovers predicted that Kozeluh could take the measure of anyone in the game. He was steadier, a stone wall; professionals had never been given a chance to show what they could do. Amazed, they watched Tilden whack his cannonball serve across so hard that all Kozeluh could do was wave at it; they saw Tilden outsteady the stone wall with baffling dropshots, cross-court drives. Tilden...
...Maureen Orcutt in the quarterfinal. In the semifinal Miss Collett had her first real competition, but made it easy by winning the first three holes and outdriving Helen Hicks, said to be the longest-hitting woman alive. Miss Van Wie put out Mrs. Hill by being the steadier in a match in which neither was very steady. In the final, with a great crowd billowing over the course, Miss Van Wie played good golf all through, good enough to win if Miss Collett had not achieved a spiritual imitation of Bobby Jones. She had the calm, infuriating...