Word: tennised
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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"I'm really tired of tennis, hang it. I like golf and I intend to master it. ...
"In the tennis world, there are about five blokes who are as good as each other. In order to win. a bloke needs a bit of luck. . . ."
More impressive if not more efficient than any of his confrères was a 200-lb., 6-ft. 3-in. Czechoslovakian named Roderick Menzel, who plays in long shorts and woolen socks that come up almost to his knees. A minor poet and novelist in Prague, Menzel began to play...
Son of a onetime Labor M. P., Frederick John Perry started his tennis career in a suburban parlor. He took up table tennis at his home in Baling, became proficient enough to win the world's championship at Budapest in 1929. In 1930, when he was 20, his mother, to...
Last year in the final of the U. S. Singles at Forest Hills, Perry met Jack Crawford who held the Australian, French and All-England titles and was expected to add the U. S. title. When Crawford lost that match and when Ellsworth Vines turned professional shortly afterward, Perry became...