Word: wimbledon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...billhead meant what it said. Francis X. Shields and Sidney B. Wood, the young tennists whose teamwork was the talk of two continents in 1931 when they reached the semi-finals of the U. S. and Wimbledon Doubles Championships, had teamed up again, in the laundry business...
...singles players, 21-year-old Bobby Riggs and 23-year-old Frankie Parker-despite the fact that Riggs won the All-England championship at Wimbledon this year and Parker clinched the Davis Cup for the U. S. two years ago -were considered the weakest Davis Cup players the U. S. had had in a generation. For the doubles-to face seasoned Quist and Bromwich-U. S. Davis Cup Captain Walter Pate selected 20-year-old Joe Hunt and 18-year-old Jack Kramer. It was a last-minute, panic choice. Gene Mako, who had teamed brilliantly with Don Budge...
...singles champion, having tried her hand at tennis (with some success), at art (with somewhat less), finally decided to try it at a detective story.* Her heroine: Betty Dwight, good-looking, poker-faced, five-times women's singles champion, who faces Mexican Challenger Marie Azarin, at Wimbledon, only to have Senorita Azarin drop dead on the court. Significance: in Mrs. Moody's hand the racket is mightier than...
...Only Negro ever known to have competed at Wimbledon is Briton B. M. Clark, member of a Jamaica, B. W. I. tennis club...
...world's most renowned regatta is the English yachting festival known as Cowes Week. Held on the Solent, between the chalk cliffs of the Isle of Wight and the wooded southern shore of the mainland, Cowes is to yachting what Wimbledon is to tennis, what Ascot is to horse racing, what Hurlingham is to polo, what Lord's is to cricket...