Word: tournaments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, as the 58th U. S. Singles tournament warmed up at New York's Forest Hills, it looked as if the Australians (John Bromwich, Adrian Quist, Jack Crawford, Harry Hopman) who had come to the U. S. this summer might well take back to the Antipodes not only the Davis Cup which they won last fortnight and the U. S. Doubles title (won by Quist & Bromwich last month), but-at long last-the U. S. Singles championship...
...last week, instead of a Charlie Chaplin walkaway for 21-year-old Bobby Riggs, U. S. No. 1, the tournament for the Men's Singles became a three-front battle between Riggs and the two top-ranking Australians : young, ambidextrous John Bromwich (whom Riggs had 1-2-3'd on the first day of the Davis Cup matches) and seasoned, smart Adrian Quist (who had beaten Riggs on the last day of the matches...
Pairings for the U. S. Singles tennis championships in Philadelphia were drawn in gloomy belief that Jacques Brugnon and Bernard Destremau of France, Charles Hare of England, Ferenc Puncec, Frank Kukuljevic and Demeter Mitic of Yugoslavia will be summoned home for war duty before the tournament ends next week...
...Long Beach, Calif., golf fans' new-found darling, who, despite her no lb., her 18 years and the fact that she could not break 100 a year ago, reached the semi-finals by mowing down three titans, Mrs. William Hockenjos, Fay Crocker and Maureen Orcutt-all pre-tournament favorites...
...narrowed down to the finalists, the two who had survived the week of sizzling heat, drenching rains, frayed nerves and menacing bugaboos were: San Antonio's 20-year-old Betty Jameson and Atlanta's 19-year-old Dorothy Kirby. Youngest finalists in the history of the national tournament, they were nevertheless old hands at the game. Willowy, green-eyed Dot Kirby was women's champion of Georgia at 13, champion of the South at 17, had twice reached the second round of the National. Sturdy, stolid Betty Jameson was champion of the South...