Word: wimbledon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unlike tennis in England, where the world's championship at Wimbledon is the one great tournament of the year, tennis in the U. S. progresses through a series of increasingly important invitation tournaments to the grand finale of the Men's Singles Championship at Forest Hills. By last week, U. S. tennis had reached its semi-final stage: the last round of the women's singles, at Forest Hills, and the men's doubles championship, on the grounds of the Longwood Cricket Club at Brookline, Mass...
...Wimbledon this year Japan's Jiro Satoh was allowed to serve two games in succession by mistake against Britain's Bunny Austin. The rules say that all points scored before discovery of the mistake shall count. But if the game is finished, the altered service order shall remain...
...Dudley, England-it gave the U. S. a lead of 3 matches to o, with four to play. Needing one more match, it looked the next day as though the U. S. team could not fail to win-until Miss Round, who took a set from Mrs. Moody at Wimbledon, had taken a brilliant match from Sarah Palfrey 6-4, 10-8, and Betty Nuthall had beaten Miss Marble's single's substitute, Carolin Babcock, 1-6, 6-1. 6-3. U. S. women's doubles teams seldom live up to their potentialities and there was small...
...complete collapse of the U. S. Davis Cup team last week would have been more remarkable if it had not happened so frequently before. In 1931, the same English team even more unexpectedly beat a U. S. side that had Sidney Wood, Wimbledon finalist, and Frank Shields, Wimbledon runner-up, in place of Vines and Allison. Last year foxy Jean Borotra won singles matches against both Vines and Allison to keep the Cup for France in the Challenge round. Explanations for last week's surprise were as numerous as they were inadequate. Most experts suggested that Vines and Allison...
...England's Davis Cup tennis team (Perry, Austin, Lee, Hughes): the European zone finals, by healing the Australian team 3-to-2 (Crawford, McGrath, Quist, Turnbull) at Wimbledon. England. This week in Paris the English team meets the U. S. team in the interzone finals. ¶Ben Jeby: a 15-round fight with Young Terry of Trenton, N. J., in which Jeby was defending his world's middleweight championship; in Newark. ¶Inlander, owned by socialite Mrs. Dodge Sloane of Manhattan: the Arlington Classic, in which he muddily spattered up from fourth place in the stretch, to finish...