Word: australian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unlike the smallish crowds that watch tennis with Emily Post decorum in the U.S., Australian tennis zealots turn out by the thousands, even for minor tournaments. And they would no more think of repressing their natural partisanship than a crowd of U.S. baseball fans. A visiting American can expect to have his court errors lustily cheered, can count on cries of "Lout!" and "Mug!" if he shows temper or disgruntlement...
...replied Canberra, because that might imply Australian recognition of Eire's claim to Northern Ireland, and with the Queen herself due for a visit to Canberra, that would never do. How, suggested the Australian government, about "Ambassador to the Republic of Ireland," or even "Ambassador to President Sean T. O'Ceallaigh," just as the British themselves do it, spelling O'Kelly in the Gaelic way? No, said Dublin firmly, it would have to be "Ireland" or nothing...
...Melbourne, after Australian Miler John Landy had again come within a second of the world record with a 4:02.4 clocking, Finnish Champion Denis Johansson gasped: "Landy is magnificent. I have never seen anything like it. On a first-class cinder track and with good opposition he could run a 3:55 mile." Landy promptly announced that he will make a U.S. and European tour this spring and summer once he gets firm invitations...
Tony Trabort, America's No. 1 tennis player, was humiliated yesterday by the balding John Bromwhich in the second round of the Australian national championships. Australian tennis writers immediately forecast an investigation by the Lawn Tennis Assoc. of Australia...
...Australia, the Sydney Daily Mirror headlined a tennis reversal: TRABERT PULVERIZES LEW HOAD. The U.S.'s Tony Trabert, bouncing back from his five-set Davis Cup loss to Hoad, whipped the youngster, 6-4, 6-2, 6-2, for the South Australian tennis title. Said Hoad: "I've had tennis for the moment." ¶ In Cincinnati, meeting at the N.C.A.A. convention, the unofficial Ivy League finally made it official. Beginning in 1956, the Ivies-Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Princeton and Yale-will meet one another in football on a round-robin basis for a regular conference...