Word: tournaments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with Spanish-cork, French-kid-covered, Czecho-Slovakian-goose-quilled birds) like those used by Bette Davis, Pat O'Brien, Douglas Fairbanks and other Hollywood enthusiasts. Although serious badminton addicts play indoors where there is no breeze to affect the true flight of their birds, many a tournament player, such as Mrs. George Wightman (donor of the Wightman Cup), Tennist Sidney Wood and William Faversham Jr., plays outdoors with heavier birds just...
...German exile Baron Gottfried von Cramm: the London Grass Courts tennis championship, No. 1 tune-up for this week's All-England tournament at Wimbledon (in which he is not entered); defeating Ghaus Mohammed of India in the final, 6-1, 6-3; for his first major tennis victory since he was imprisoned by the Nazis for moral turpitude over a year ago. In the semifinals, the onetime German Davis Cupper, now living in Sweden, trounced Bobby Riggs, No. 1 U. S. amateur, 6-0, 6-1. Said Donald Budge, who was among the spectators: "I think Germany made...
...Week before, during the Cat Cay tuna tournament, Tommy Shevlin landed three tuna - a 382-pounder, a 406-pounder, a 485-pounder -within 62 minutes. Fellow fishermen thought it a world's record...
...Chicago squad, has been defeated just once in the past three years. So has straight-nosed Bill, No. 2 singles player. Although they are good enough to have a national ranking* (mainly because of a doubles victory over Davis Cuppers Bobby Riggs and Bitsy Grant in the famed Seabright tournament last summer), the Murphy twins have no intention of becoming "tennis bums" (amateur players who tour the circuit of bigtime tournaments and live on the clubs' "expense accounts"). They want jobs as basketball coaches, a game at which they also excel...
Yale has decided on the three tennis players who, along with Dave Burt, Langdon Gilkey, and John Palfrey of Harvard, will go abroad this summer to compete in the tournament with the Oxford-Cambridge team. Captain Gordy Campbell of the Elis rated one of the three Yale places immediately, but a round robin tournament had to be held to determine the remaining two places...