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Word: toba (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Another Japanese, Yoshiro Ohta, small as a bellboy but accurate as a sewing-machine, carried Hennessy to a deuce set before he went down, 8-6, 6-3, 6-3. Next day Tilden and Lott ended the Davis Cup series in the west by beating Abe and Toba...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Courts | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

...Bengal championship three times, the West Indian championship once. Among his victims was Louis Dean of the India Davis Cup team. He is 26, "fast as lightning and with the sinews of a Bengal tiger." Takio Harada. Last year he won the Japanese singles championship from Toba. He also defeated the veteran Ichiya Kumagae, who is growing a trifle old for the court, but was at the time of the match reported "still a wizard." Harada is coming to this country soon to complete his studies (begun at Keio University) with a postgrad course at Harvard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Oriental | 3/10/1924 | See Source »

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