Word: turf
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pinnacle of horticultural impeccability right up to the great moment, it only remained lor the head keeper to waft his sickle at a few imaginary shoots of twitch grass, for the chairman of the greens committee to make efficient little dents with his heel in the sleek turf of the first tee, and for a few bag-shirted "guineas" to roam through the dusk, disconsolate but faithful in their contemplation of water-lilies that sprang up from slippery rubber stalks on the more pallid putting greens...
...many neat squares of green turf and white chalk which the West Side Tennis Court at Forest Hills, Long Island, provides for the game of lawn tennis, there flowered, last week, innumerable figures in white skirts and colored sweaters who arranged themselves in opposing pairs and began to move in the sunlight, forward and back, from side to side, like the bright porcelain dolls of some minute carnival, weaving a country-dance to music no one else could hear. They were the competitors in the Women's National Championship Tournament. At the end of the first day there were...
...Southampton. The unplumbed, salt, estranging sea is no friend to tennis players. It sends its fogs to swell catgut strings so that a dry day will snap them; it strangles the buoyant spirits of balls; its rains rot turf, soften sand. All these things it did at Southhampton last week, but the annual invitation tournament went smoothly on. There was only one upset-the defeat of Alfred Chapin by Cedric A. Major of Manhattan. Young George Lott of Chicago easily ended the hopes of upstart Major, and was himself defeated in the finals by Howard Kinsey, last year...
...Forest Hills. Two tournaments were held on the suave turf of the West Side Tennis Club-the annual East vs. West meet, and the tryouts to determine how players shall be ranked and teamed on the Davis Cup combination...
...women's tennis-Miss Helen Wills, Miss Elizabeth Ryan, Miss Mary K. Browne, Mrs. Molla Bjurstedt Mailory , Miss Eleanor Goss, Mrs. Marion Zinderstein Jessup-entered the Metropolitan Women's Turf Court Championship, strode through to the round before the semi-final without defeat. Then Miss Goss, placed at No. 4 in the National ranking, was the worm that turned against Miss Mary K. Browne, No. 2, brought her down, 6-3, 5-7, 6-4. Miss Wills sprang to revenge her doubles partner, handily defeated Miss Goss, 6-1, 6-2. Then occurred another upset. Miss Ryan...