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Tennis is a curiosity among competitive sports: the players outnumber the spectators. An estimated 8,500,000 Americans play tennis, but only a handful ever attend top amateur or professional tournaments. The reason, according to James Van Alen, 63, president of the tennis Hall of Fame, is the sport's 85-year-old scoring system, which belabors spectators with archaic terminology ("love," "deuce," "advantage"), places no time limit on the duration of a match, and encourages a brand of play-the wham-slam "big game"-that often makes the match a bore to watch. Van Alen's answer...
...Hope You're Satisfied." At Forest Hills, early-round sets were 21-point affairs, and the two-point-margin rule was eliminated, causing Van Alen to complain: "They're not playing VASSS. It's not my system at all." He was nowhere nearly as upset as Pancho Gonzales was when Gonzales discovered that he was required to serve from the 3-ft. line-thereby taking the steam out of his serve, the hardest in the game. Gonzales blew his first-round match to Chilean Luis Ayala, 21-18, then blew his top. He challenged heckling spectators...
...splices just right, Doud and Co-Producer Alen Robin listened to 36 miles of taped interviews to clip out their answers, lined up such easy-to-recognize voices as Swayze and Westbrook Van Voorhis to put the questions. Not every exchange comes off; some are forced, obvious or needlessly raw. But the record does capture some high moments and victims...
...Buyers. Half the magazine was given over to fiction, light verse and criticism. The rest was primarily the colonel's own leering, impertinent gossip. ("Mr. Henry Sloane has been looked upon as a complacent husband who wore his horns too publicly." "Miss Van Alen suffers from some kind of throat trouble-she cannot go more than half an hour without a drink...
...their 52-40 conquest of Lehigh last week, the Cadets also showed strength in the 200 breastroke and in the individual medley. Chances are, however, that Crimson captain Bill Schellstede will take care of the breaststroke, while EISL champion Bob Kaufmann and Alen Englesburg should have no trouble in wrapping up the medley...