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Word: tennised (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another perennial favorite is tennis, coached by Jack Barnaby in the spring. Limited facilities for indoor tennis are available to the winter. Freshman tennis courts are located on Soldiers Field.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Athletic Facilities Open to Freshman | 9/1/1939 | See Source »

Above the pool are located three basketball courts, which can be converted into indoor tennis courts. Skip Stahley will direct the '43 dribblers, and the odds are that he will held another fine team.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Athletic Facilities Open to Freshman | 9/1/1939 | See Source »

In the final of last week's Men's Singles, aggressive, lefthanded, 22-year-old Jimmy McDaniel and fleet-footed, keen-minded, ay-year-old Reginald Weir put on the best tennis performance that has been seen in Jim Crow tournaments since Negroes first learned to play the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Jim Crow Tennis | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

Finalist Weir, son of a Washington, D. C. violin teacher, is the Bill Tilden of his race. Onetime captain of the College of the City of New York tennis team (a rarity for a Negro ), he has been the most outstanding colored U. S. tennist of the past decade: national...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Jim Crow Tennis | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

† Only Negro ever known to have competed at Wimbledon is Briton B. M. Clark, member of a Jamaica, B. W. I. tennis club.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Jim Crow Tennis | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

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