Word: wimbledon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sympathetic portrait of Lawrence may have wondered how Lawrence liked it. He wrote to Huxley: "Your Rampion is the most boring character in the book?a gasbag. Your attempt at intellectual sympathy!?It's all rather disgusting, and I feel like a badger that has its hole on Wimbledon Common and trying not to be caught...
...Lawn Tennis Association officials rather expected her to enter the singles championship at the last minute again this year but Helen Moody decided not to. She stayed in Paris, "to study painting." The U. S. L. T. A., which had paid her expenses abroad to play at Wimbledon, expecting she would return to make the U. S. championship a financial success, was piqued. There were reports that if Mrs. Moody went abroad again next year she would pay her own way. Meanwhile, on the green blanket of turf that lies between the railroad tracks and the neat suburban cottages...
...while Miss Jacobs, pounding the ball deep to shut off the Babcock cross court drives, won the two sets and her first U. S. singles championships in 31 minutes, 6-2, 6-2. To top off her greatest year, which contained also the honor of being runner-up at Wimbledon. Miss Jacobs, paired with Sarah Palfrey of Sharon. Mass., disposed of Alice Marble and Mrs. Whitfield Painter. 8-6, 6-1. for the U. S. women's doubles title...
...Frank Parker, 16-year-old Milwaukee tennist who plans next year to be the Wimbledon doubles partner of Ellsworth Vines: the U. S. junior singles championship, beating Gene Mako of California 6-8, 3-6, 6-1, 9-7, 6-2 in the final; at Culver...
When they came out to the court again after the rest, no one would have been much surprised to see Borotra tire or to see Vines's strokes begin to flash and sparkle as they had at Wimbledon. Borotra won the first game on his own. serve. The match stopped while policemen interrupted a fight in the grandstand. Vines won three games. Borotra won them back. Serving at 4-5, Vines slammed his cannonball into the court but the clay made it bounce slowly. At match point, he netted a drive and ran up to the net to shake...