Word: winninger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Except for the charge that it is childish, nothing so angers archers as the charge that their sport is effete, and the newspapers' habit of using almost no archery pictures except those of pretty girls. Actually, archery is among the most strenuous of pastimes. At the National Archery Association...
Favorite for the title was a onetime Michigan lifeguard, Russell Hoogerhyde, 31, who, after winning in 1930, 1931, 1932 and 1934, retired to build up a profitable Chicago business in what true toxophilites call their "tackle." Hoogerhyde's proficiency with a bow & arrow really started in 1929 when he...
Two days later U. S. alarm was some-what allayed when Budge & Gene Mako beat F. H. D. Wilde & C. R. D. Tuckey, 6-3, 7-5, 7-9. 12-10. That left Budge and Parker the job of winning between them at least one of the last two singles...
Said Long Jim Barnes after winning the event, 295 to 302 for brash young Jimmy Hines: "From here on, I'm going to leave the tournaments to the young fellows."
Abroad. The same night that Mary Binney Montgomery pretended to be in Paris, Philadelphia Dancer Catherine Littlefield, her former teacher, actually was in Paris, winning even greater praise for her ballet impressions of the U. S. The Littlefield troupe had gone abroad early in the summer, expecting to be the...