Word: tournaments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thus indulged young George Lott in the finals of the Clay Court championship (TIME, July 27). Last week in the Illinois State tournament at the Skokie Country Club, Glencoe, Ill., he mocked Harvey Snodgrass, No. 6 on the ranking list, in the same fashion, permitting him to come within two points of winning. Score...
...preliminary playing of the tournament was spiced by the elimination of George Lott, 19-year-old Chicago boy, by one Wray Brown, ranked 13 places under him. Score...
...Manchester. Playing with the rigid overeagerness of one whom victory would somewhat surprise, Mary K. Browne bowed to Helen Wills in the finals of the Essex County Country Club tournament at Manchester, Mass...
Miss Wills, playing in her first Eastern tournament of the year, showed all the poise and bright rhythm that have made her, at 19, the women's singles champion of the U. S. She defeated Mrs. Marion Z. Jessup for the Longwood title, 7-5, 6-2. Once Mrs. Jessup was within a point of taking a set. She whacked a speedy forehand into the left corner of the court-a beautiful passing shot. Two of the linesmen looked at each other with a mute, sleepy question. They called...
...Britishers, intrigued by the leisured amenity of this form of play, concentrate upon it. The Oxford-Cambridge tennis team, playing at the Nassau Country Club, had no difficulty in taking the doubles matches from a bounding pair from the University of California. The latter won four singles matches, the tournament...