Word: tennised
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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¶ Helen Wills Moody: the women's singles of the Surrey tennis tournament, her second victory since arriving in England to try to win her eighth English championship at Wimbledon next month; defeating Margot Lumb, No. 10 in British ranking, in the final, 6-3, 6-4; at Surbiton...
Straus Hall's racquetmen captured the interdormitory tennis championship of the Yard when they nosed out the Grays team 3 to 2 yesterday on the Soldiers Field Courts. Jim Pattee, Ralph Leavitt, and Don Wycliff turned in the three Straus victories.
Kirkland tennis players fared no betters, as J. C. Wood and Corey Wynn were the only Deacons to win matches in the 5 to 2 Davenport victory. Barker, Ruml, Bradlee, Hough, and Sibley all lost to their Yale Opponents at New Haven.
In Britain, most popular television stunts have been telecasts of public events like tennis matches, boat races, fights, the Coronation. Recently, Londoners saw BBC Commentator Thomas Woodrooffe eat his hat before the television camera to keep a promise made in a sports broadcast. The hat was made of sugar-coated...
While his country's national tennis tournament went on without him, Germany's No. 1 Ace Baron Gottfried von Cramm stood trial for homosexuality. Testimony was taken in Berlin's gloomy old Moabit Court behind doors closed to press and public. Presumably to quash rumors of the...