Word: tolley
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Play had not gone far before major casualties occurred. Hammering hooks, ripping off slices, hewing up divots like graveslabs, ponderous Cyril Tolley of England duffered out of the tournament with a suddenness and completeness that boded ill to Britain's Walker Cup chances later on, for Tolley is the British team's captain. But then U. S. Captain Robert Gardner spent a morning "hitting the ball on the roof" (i. e., topping shots) and dishonors were even. As one despatch paraphrased it: "His driving was singular and putting plural...
...know whereof I speak. I am reliably informed that Miss Wills was never within a point of winning the second set, nor did I see any of the American papers claiming that she "had been cheated out of the match by the stupidity of an Englishman." Cyril Tolley was close to the line, in the best position to judge the ball in the disputed incident which occurred in the eighth game with the score...
...What did you call that ball?" she asked the ponderous Tolley. Her voice shook, her face was furious. For the first time in her life she was showing emotion on a tennis court...
...Inside," said Tolley...
Helen Wills threw up her hand in a staccato gesture of despair for Tolley's crumbling intellect, his blindness. "Out, out," shouted the spectators, confident that they could see better than Mr. Tolley, whose stool was a yard from the baseline. Possibly the ball was out; possibly the decision kept Miss Wills from winning the greatest match of her life. No one will ever know. Suzanne Lenglen, against whom some equally dubious decision had been called in the first set, ran out the set 8-6, and a moment later was borne from the court on the shoulders...