Word: tennist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Frank Parker, 16-year-old Milwaukee tennist who plans next year to be the Wimbledon doubles partner of Ellsworth Vines: the U. S. junior singles championship, beating Gene Mako of California 6-8, 3-6, 6-1, 9-7, 6-2 in the final; at Culver...
Died. Raymond D. Little, 52, publisher, sportsman, onetime (1906) Davis Cup tennist, with Gustave F. Touchard national doubles champion in 1911; by his own hand (shotgun) in Manhattan...
...down entirely, were baffled by the third set. Vines dawdled about the court with a pleasant grin while Prenn won six games in a row. When Vines, still loafing, lost the first three games in the third set, it looked to the crowd as though Prenn, the most tenacious tennist in Europe, was going to do the impossible as he has often done before. Vines removed his white flannel cap and with it his amiable smile. Looking serious, he began putting his weight behind his serve, pounding his drives to within a foot of the baseline...
Engaged. Doris Metaxa, 21. French tennist, winner (with Jacqueline Sigart) of the Wimbledon doubles championship last fortnight; and Peter D. Howard, one-time England Rugby Team captain...
...that, too, England has a medi cine. Last week the country knew that the Ministry of Labor was keeping 175,000 of the 2,600,000 dole-drawers busy for three-to-six month periods in "reconditioning camps." Joan Fry Lakeman, famed tennist. was directing a Society of Friends program which would furnish gar den plots, seeds, tools to another...