Word: tennist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...helped found Western Union Telegraph Co. and was its first president, Harper Sibley owns ranches in Alberta and California, Sibley Farms in Illinois. He is in banking, lumber and coal, gives time to civic enterprises like the Community Chest and the Genesee Hospital. A lean, bronzed outdoor man, able tennist at 48, Harper Sibley is a member of the potent National Council of the Episcopal Church and a friend of Rochester's Bishop David Lincoln Ferris. His slim, gracious wife, Georgiana Farr Sibley, mother of six, is a busy clubwoman and good speaker, member of the National Council...
...Frank Parker, 18-year-old New Orleans tennist: the Houston invitation tournament; 7-5, 10-12, 6-2, 6-2 against George Lott in the final, after beating Clifford Sutter, third ranking U. S. player, 6-1, 2-6, 6-0, 9-11, 8-6 the day before. C Harvard's indoor polo team (Bill Mc-Guckin, Tom Davis, Fred Nicholas): the John R. Townsend Cup for the intercollegiate championship; 10½ to 1, with seven Koals in the last period, against Army in the final; in Manhattan. C George Terry Dunlap Jr., onetime intercollegiate golf champion (Princeton...
Named Athlete-of-the-Year by 52 votes of U. S. sportswriters in an Associated Press poll was Golfer Gene Sarazen, U. S. and British Open champion. Second with 36 votes was Tennist Ellsworth Vines; third with 33, Sprinter Eddie Tolan...
Jack Crawford, No. 1 tennist of Australia: the championship of Victoria 1-6. 6-4, 6-4, 2-6, 6-4 in the final against U. S. Champion Ellsworth Vines; on an exhaustingly hot day at Melbourne...
...Frederick Perry, No. 2 tennist of England: the Pacific Southwest Championship; beating tiny Jiro Satoh of Japan. 6-2, 6-4. 7-5, in the final after Satoh had beaten Champion Ellsworth Vines Jr. 6-4. 6-4; at Los Angeles...