Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eton-trained, 26-year-old Robert Grant III, Manhattan stockbroker: the U. S. amateur racquets championship for the second year in a row, trouncing Joseph Richard Leonard of Tuxedo, N. Y. in straight games in the final, 15-6, 15-8, 15-4; in Manhattan. In two years of stiff competition, during which he has won the U.S. and Canadian Singles twice, the Tuxedo Gold Racquet tournament twice and the brand-new open competition for the Clarence Pell Cup, Champion Grant has not lost a match, has lost only four games...
...class Sophomore Bill Daughaday has great potentialities to become some day the Crimson's major threat. Yet somewhat green, Daughaday is well built and has developed an efficient technique. His record is not impressive although he won his first four matches over weak opponents. Because he put up a stiff fight against Navy and Penn and also against Charlie Powers of Princeton, observers are predicting he will do well in the Eastern events...
when snow disappears the stickmen will be the first spring squad to get outside as they must capitalize every minute in order to be prepared for three stiff games during the spring vacation. This year they will take on Penn, Navy, and Maryland down in the heart of the lacrosse country. The schedule of the trip is as follows: April 5, Penn; April 7, Maryland; April 9, Navy...
...Facing a stiff task of reorganizing the Eastern Intercollegiate Athletics along with the I. C. 4A, Asa S. Bushnel newly appointed director, at a press luncheon of Metropolitan and CRIMSON Sports Editors, yesterday asserted that his biggest fight will be determining the appointment of officials for the 11 leagues under his supervision...
...pucksters should encounter stiff competition in attempting to stretch its winning streak, since the Cambridge outfits lists Exeter, whom the Freshmen barely topped 6-5 last Wednesday, among its victims. Hodder will probably start his winning line combination of Captain Prentle Willets, Burton Cox, and Stacey Hulse, with Butt and Gray on defense. George Hanford will be in the nets...