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...Virginia Country Club at Richmond was the next opponent. The Southerners lost all the singles matches, but managed to gain one point as the result of a victory over Whitbeck and Cummings in doubles. The following day at the Norfolk Country Club in Norfolk another complete whitewash was chalked...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE DEFEAT WOULD NOT MAR TENNIS TEAM'S GLORY | 6/13/1925 | See Source »

...Chestnut Hill, Mass., tennis court-keepers put by their weeding-knives, rollers, mowers and whitewash carts. Out of the Longwood Cricket Club house came many pairs of players in white shirts, white flannels, white shoes. Play began for the men's national doubles championships...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Other Tennis | 8/25/1924 | See Source »

Maytime. The famous operetta, which is still a favorite after seven years, has been presented on the screen, minus the music and the swinging choruses. The effect is supremely silly. Sentiment is splashed around with a whitewash brush. An attempt has been made to jazz up this fragrantly simple story of the lovers who buried their love beneath a tree as they were forced to marry others, and had their souls reunited at last in their descendants. Harrison Ford, Ethel Shannon, Clara Bow and William Norris pop in and out of the story, doubling on their tracks through three generations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jun. 9, 1924 | 6/9/1924 | See Source »

...defeat, an unexpected 4 to 3 win and an 8 to 0 whitewash in the last game, gave the Crimson the edge in the Princeton series in 1919, the only other series with Princeton since the War to have gone to three games When the University lines up against Princeton tomorrow afternoon at Fenway Park it will be in much the same situation as was the 1919 team. With the odds in favor of the Tiger nine again, Spalding will try to duplicate the feat of W. B. Felton '19, who startled the baseball world by allowing the Princeton team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ODDS FAVOR TIGER BATTERS TOMORROW | 6/3/1924 | See Source »

Welte and Morcroft save the Green from a whitewash when they defeated Lenhart and Pratt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1927 TENNIS PLAYERS OVERWHELM DARTMOUTH | 5/17/1924 | See Source »

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