Sentences with phrase «despite failing eyesight»
What makes him happy is not only that he was the first to win the cup (with Sims) in 1930, but that many say he is playing at least as well — if not better — today, despite failing eyesight.
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Despite relapses of failing eyesight and crippling rheumatism, he continued to lecture on Spencer's behalf, dragging himself around the Midwest in unheated trains to proselytize in town after town where often, he would recall, he encountered «a protracted meeting in full blast at every church in town except the Episcopal, and a general feeling of pious rage at my appearance on the scene.»