Word: won
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Newspapers throughout the state had carried the news that Scarlet Sister Mary was too scarlet for Gaffney. Now they carried the story that the Cherokee Times had a scarlet serial. And next-great "scoop" for the Cherokee Times!-they carried news that Scarlet Sister Mary had won the Pulitzer Prize for 1928 as best U. S. novel of the year (TIME...
Stanford had a 14-man team. Twelve qualified, two twice. Though Easterners won ten individual titles to the Westerners' five, with one triple tie, eleven of Stanford's twelve qualifiers scored points in the finals...
...Detroit last week the young, sanguine U. S. tennis team won the American zone Davis Cup preliminaries by taking five matches from some torpid Cubans (Ricardo Morales, Herman Uppman, Gustavo Vollmer). The youngsters-Wilmer Allison, John Hennessey, George Lott, John Van Ryn-then sailed for England, there to team with William Tatem Tilden II and Francis T. Hunter. This U. S. sextet will play the winner of the English-Italian European zone finals for the privilege of meeting France, possessor of the Davis...
...mixed doubles, to scampering Henri Cochet of France and Eileen Bennett of England (6-3, 6-2). Told that future English tournaments might prohibit her barelegged play, Miss Wills observed icily: "I did not discard stockings as a fad. I have done it to increase my speed." Her speed won the women's singles again. She trounced Eileen Bennett (6-2, 7-5) and Mme. Rene Mathieu, No. 1 Frenchwoman...
Twelve of the 33 finished. Ray Keech of Philadelphia won. His Simplex Piston Ring Special averaged 97.583 m. p. h. This was slow driving for Winner Keech, who in 1928 held the world's speed record by moving 207.55 m. p. h. at Daytona Beach, Fla. But it was not easy, for he took the notoriously low-banked, treacherous Indianapolis turns without lowering his throttle. His skilled chauffering won him about...