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Bonus Event: A Harvard tennis player named Dwight Davis establishes a new tournament and coincidentally calls it the Davis Cup.
Len Berman: Top 5 Sports Stories Len Berman 2011
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Bonus Event: A Harvard tennis player named Dwight Davis establishes a new tournament and coincidentally calls it the Davis Cup.
Len Berman: Top 5 Sports Stories Len Berman 2011
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It all began in 1900, when a Harvard student named Dwight Davis placed an order at Shreve, Crump, & Low Co. in Boston for a trophy bowl made of 217 ounces of sterling silver and lined with gold.
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With a few well-placed crumple zones and some crush cones in the bumpers, "a lot of energy can get absorbed before it reaches the human body," says Dwight Davis, an executive at Fiberforge.
TRAVELING SUPERLIGHT 2007
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When the mother arrived at the residence Friday morning, she couldn't locate her daughter, but found her daughter's 2-year-old son, Dwight Davis, in his room.
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With the rise of American tennis and the advent of Dwight Davis and Holcombe Ward, service took on a new significance.
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Gradually this plan became popular, until Dwight Davis and Holcombe Ward surprised the tennis world with their new service, now the American twist, and used it as an opening gun in a net attack.
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"It was a lot more tiring than I thought it was going to be," said Dwight Davis, whose team for J.E. Dunn Construction advanced to the playoffs.
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"It was a lot more tiring than I thought it was going to be," said Dwight Davis, whose team for J.E. Dunn Construction advanced to the playoffs.
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In 1900, he and Dwight Davis, a future city parks commissioner, led a campaign to build the first playgrounds in St. Louis.
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