Word: tyres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Appointed. Robert Tyre Jones Jr., retired golf champion of the world; to be a captain in the organized reserve of the U. S. Army for "special and miscellaneous duty"; by President Hoover...
...Cincinnati. Said he: "When I was an amateur ... it was my idea that the players were under no obligation to the public. . . . But now I go out on the courts realizing that I owe the public a hard fight, good tennis, and a show." Jones. In Atlanta Robert Tyre Jones Jr. made his first public appearance since his retirement from amateur golf. It was a charity exhibition-match on his home course; Jones was playing with burly John Golden against Gene Sarazen and Horton Smith. He seemed to loaf, was tail-ender of the foursome, which ended...
Like Golfer Robert Tyre Jones Jr., last week tennis's William Tatem Tilden II formally announced his retirement from amateurity. Also like Golfer Jones, he has signed a film contract (with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). In his open letter to the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association, said he: "I shall never coach professionally, but I will always be glad to help any person in the tennis ranks whom I care to. . . . The future Davis Cup Team . . . should be built around [George] Lott...
...winning the four major golf championships, Robert Tyre Jones Jr. was easily Sportsman of the Year. The Nobel Prize winners, especially the onetime newshawk Sinclair Lewis who is the first U. S. litterateur to receive the accolade, were Men of the Year. But the work for which they were honored was done in other years...
...editors of the U. S. select the Ten Biggest News Stories of the year. Last week President Karl A. Bickel of the United Press, General Manager Kent Cooper of Associated Press, and President Frank E. Mason of International News Service announced their lists, agreed unanimously on only three: Robert Tyre Jones's four-fold golf victories. The Columbus, Ohio, prison fire. The crash of the R-101. The finding of the bodies of Arctic Explorer Andree and his companions, which developed into something of a Hearst scoop (TIME, Sept. 1 et seq.), headed the list of Hearst...