Word: 75s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...linksmen had already routed the Eagles in an earlier season match but yesterday a B.C. duo of Dave Magdalenski and John McCann finished first and second in the individual scoring department. Magdalenski ousted Crimson captain Alex Vik as the Greater Boston champion with a brace of 75s to finish as medalist while McCann posted a morning 73 to finish second...
...most remarkable of the 1,200 or so Super-Seniors-players who are at least 55 years old and still compete in tournament tennis. In the five years since the Super-Senior organization was founded, divisions have been formed first for free-swinging 60s, then for 65s, 70s and 75s. This year Super-Senior President C. Alphonso ("Smithy") Smith, who as a mere stripling of 68 has already won some 30 national championships, has organized the 80s, surely the sport's most exclusive fraternity. To mark the inaugural. Smithy, as nonplaying captain, is taking a team consisting of Henry...
...says, works just fine. When Chaffee plays, he wears a steel-ribbed corset to support his back; he has a displaced vertebra. Yet he is able to intimidate most of his baseline-hugging contemporaries by constantly rushing the net. Says Smithy: "Before Chaffee, the only time the 75s came to the net was to shake hands after the match...
Indeed, medical studies show that most aged but active tennis players are in exceptionally good health. A team of orthopedic surgeons examining competitors at the National Clay Court Championships for 70s and 75s last fall found that their circulation, coordination and memory were superior to those of their more sedentary contemporaries...
...aversion to losing as today's well-paid professionals, they make their own line calls, rarely dispute a referee's ruling and never indulge in Nastase-like tantrums. That gentlemanly attitude makes life easier for Alphonso Smith, who will supervise the U.S. Clay Court Championships for 70s, 75s and 80s this September in Charlottesville, Va. "But the real reason I like the Super-Seniors," he says with tongue tucked firmly in cheek, "is that you don't have to worry about getting harassed by the parents...