Word: wimbledon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Helen Wills Moody, in retirement since defaulting to Helen Jacobs in the final of the U. S. championship at Forest Hills last autumn, was last week reporting the Wimbledon tournament for Hearst papers. To have her longtime rival describe her first victory at Wimbledon was the pleasant prospect which presented itself to Helen Jacobs when she entered the centre court last week to play the final against England's demure Dorothy Round...
...Wightman Cup tennists (Helen Jacobs. Sarah Palfrey, Carolin Babcock, Josephine Cruickshank): 5 matches to 2, their series against England, for the fourth successive year; at Wimbledon. ¶Cavalcade, ridden by Mack Garner: the Detroit Derby, his fourth important stake race of the season, setting a new track record for 1 1/16 miles and adding $19,500 to his $77,000 winnings. ¶Dr. Alexander Alekhine of Paris: 15- points to 10½; a match of 26 games which started April 1 in Baden Baden, against Efim D. Bogoljubow. for the chess championship of the world; in Berlin...
...carrying great sizzling gasoline flares stalked like old-time linkboys ahead of their buses. Many a scarlet omnibus caught fire from the heat of repeatedly jammed brakes. A pair of wild ducks, lost and dizzy, dropped quacking disconsolately in the middle of the Strand. Rail traffic was paralyzed. A Wimbledon train sat on a siding for hours while fog-bound commuters, jamming every compartment, sang "Who's Afraid of the Big Black...
Long-legged Henry Ellsworth Vines Jr., last year's No. 1 U. S. tennist, last week ended a disastrous year of amateur tennis. Last June, just before he lost his Wimbledon title, Professional William T. Tilden offered him a $100,000 contract if he won. Made dizzy by having lost so much money. Vines talked about it, brought on an investigation by the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association which finally cleared him of having done more than think about turning professional...
...lanky Henry Ellsworth Vines Jr., last year's No. 1 U. S. tennist, this year has been anything but happy. Beaten at Wimbledon, beaten in Davis Cup play, beaten out of his U. S. championship at Forest Hills, beaten in the Pacific Southwest tournament at Los Angeles last fortnight, he talked so carelessly about turning professional that the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association felt called upon to investigate. He was cleared, but last week he had fresh troubles when the Associated Press held him up to view as a turnquote...