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...Alai League...
...solution is just as simple. Got some more. How? Well, recent magazine articles have brought to the attention of East Coast sports land a little-known, but very incrative enterprise which has been flourishing in Florida for many years. The name of the game is Jai-Alai (pronounced "Hie-lie"), the annual take is about one and one-half million dollars...
...years Harvard has led the nation in the educational field, and here is another chance for a "big first." And Cambridge is peculiarly well-suited for Jai-Alai, too. Ever since its erection in 1871 Memorial Hall has been a chronic problem--too big for a classroom, too small, for an indoor polo field. But it's perfect for a Jai-Alai fronton...
Pierre, a Basque from St.-Jean-de-Luz, never held a court tennis racquet in his hand until he was 29. But by that time he had already served as a machine-gunner in the French army, was the French champion at the Basque games of chistera (jai alai), pala (jai alai with a small bat), and mains nues (handball). Within a year of taking up the 700-year-old game of court tennis, Pierre was champion of France, and five years later, in 1928, he was champion of the world...
...telling the sport news of the 30 years since then, TIME'S covers have ranged from boxing to jai alai, including stories on baseball, football, crew racing, chess, tennis, polo, ice hockey and skiing. Sport Editor Douglas Kennedy wrote this week's cover story, the seventh he has written since he came to TIME in '1950. Subjects of Kennedy's other cover stories: Sugar Ray Robinson, Dick Savitt, Princeton's Dick Kazmaier, Andrea Mead Lawrence, Eddie ("The Brat") Stanky, and Olympic Decathlon Champion Bob Mathias...