Word: mcgrath
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sporting public, the ceremonious cricket altercation was much less exciting than the tennis news from Melbourne, particularly the news that concerned Australia's newest and queerest tennis phenomenon, 16-year-old Vivian McGrath. The four U. S. players who went to Australia last October for a tour like the one which Tilden & Johnston made in 1920, knew about Jack Crawford and Harry Hopman, mainstays of last year's Australian Davis Cup team. But all they had heard about McGrath was that he is a boy wonder who hits his backhand shots with both hands. As soon as they...
Although Gledhill beat him 6-4, 6-1, 6-1 in the semi-finals next day, McGrath's victory over Vines proved definitely that he is not a freakish flash-in-the-pan. but the rarest thing in tennis-an utterly unorthodox player who is also a superlatively good one. Unable to give eye-witness reports of McGrath or to publish adequate photographs of him, U. S. tennis writers had to rely on descriptions by U. S. players who had seen him in action. Said Wilmer Allison: "McGrath will go right to the top with that funny backhand...
Carry Nation (by Frank McGrath; Theatre Unit, Inc., producer). If tight-faced, quixotic little Carry Nation was not insane, according to the McGrath play which claims to be "substantially true," she was close as a toucher to it. Her father was religiously fanatical, had Carry baptized in ice-cold water at the age of 11. The result of her ducking brought on "intestinal consumption" which plagued her all her life. Carry's mother suffered the delusion that she was Queen Victoria; Carry's only child died in an asylum. Carry's mental inheritance took the form...
...summary: HARVARD DARTMOUTH Murphy, l.e. l.e., Muelle Cahners, l.f. l.f., Erien Gulian, l.g. l.g., Sinsen Letarie, c. c., Butler Prout, r.g. r.g., Billings Burton, r.f. r.f., Mack Kelly, r.e. r.e., Gregory Prouty, q.b. q.b., Goodman Fitz, l.h.b. l.h.b., Chamberlain Jackson, r.h.b. r.h.b., Frigwed Lane, f.b. f.b., McGrath...
...Morris Cove near New Haven. Frank P. Walsh, chairman of the New York Power Authority, boarded the Myth II to discuss the St. Lawrence seaway. The second day. Skipper Roosevelt piloted his craft 50 mi. along the shore to Stonington, Conn. That night's visitors included J. Howard McGrath, Rhode Island's Democratic State Chairman...