Word: wimbledon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Meadow Brook next fortnight, and the 400-mile international auto race at Roosevelt Field next month. Last week, at Meadow Brook, the Open Polo Championship series ended. Last week also, International Tennis, a leisurely international carnival in whose circuit the other stops are Melbourne and Nice, Auteuil and Wimbledon, paused at the flat and singularly unarboreal New York suburb of Forest Hills, to play its last major engagement of the year-the Singles Championship of the U. S., for men & women...
...days when Tilden, Johnston and Richards, first three in the world's tennis ranking, made the thought of serious rivalry for the Davis Cup an absurdity, the U. S. Men's Singles Championship was easily the equal of the All-England Championship at Wimbledon. This year the U. S. celebrated the tenth anniversary of its last Davis Cup victory by failing for the first time even to reach the final of the tournament* and the only chance that Forest Hills would supply the season's climax as well as its conclusion lay in the hope that...
Patterned after Wimbledon, the idea of holding the men's & women's championships at the same time worked out well at Forest Hills last year. That last week's gate receipts were bigger than last year seemed, in view of the weakness of the men's championship as an attraction, due mainly to the fact that the United States Lawn Tennis Association had decided to do so again. For female tennists at least, last week's tournament might well have rated as the No. i event of the year. In it were entered four members...
Since 1932 Helen Jacobs has won the U. S. Singles Championship four times in a row (a record), but in each of these years she has been beaten at Wimbledon. This year, for the first time, she won there. If she wins at Forest Hills this week, she will at last be recognized as the ablest ten-nist of her sex in the world, a satisfaction that has eluded her for ten years. Last week the forecasts of tennis experts made her an overwhelming favorite...
...England: the Davis Cup, for the fourth successive year, when, with the score two matches all, dashing Fred Perry beat Australia's Jack Crawford, 6-2, 6-3, 6-3; at Wimbledon...