Word: tennised
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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A number of lady members of the Riverside Tennis Club of Hoboken, N. J., have organized a foot-ball (spelled or mis-spelled "foot-boll") team to be composed entirely of ladies, (Nov. 14, 1888).
The rest, including Doug Cochrane, Bill Frothingham, Phil Jastram and Orme Wilson are notably green, but because they have good tennis backgrounds Barnaby expects a good season despite this slow beginning.
Not for many was it news last week that a freckled, redheaded, 23-year-old son of a California laundryman had abdicated the throne of amateur tennis, had turned in his four-titled crown for $75,000 in cash. For the past two months it has been common knowledge that...
U. S. tennis fans were startled, however, when Prime Minister Holcombe Ward (president of the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association), Foreign Minister Walter Pate (Davis Cup captain) and the whole Amateur Tennis Cabinet, although left with inadequate defense for the Davis Cup and a potential loss of revenue thereby, publicly...
This unprecedented procedure-so contrary to the U. S. L. T. A.'s attitude when Ellsworth Vines, Bill Tilden and Vincent Richards turned pro*-caused tennis fans to wonder whether the U. S. L. T. A. was at last willing to sign a peace treaty with professionalism, to sanction...