Word: australian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...visit to Toronto, Australian Super-miler Herb Elliott gamely tried out an unfamiliar sport, as expected ended his turn on the hickories like ski bunnies everywhere: doing an Australian crawl down under a pile of snow. Shaken but game, he scrambled woozily to his feet, diplomatically calmed the fears of his hosts with a gingerly verdict on the adventure...
...exam-time engagements. Perhaps the most astonishing of recent announcements was that of Otto Van der Meyermoot 7G and Gloria Schnook '62. "I'm pretty happy," said Miss Schnook. "We plan to get married three years from next December, after Otto finishes his tenth year at the Center for Australian Studies...
...Rising to man's estate Down Under, Spain's slender Andrés Gimeno, 21, won the Western Australian men's tennis title by a 6-1, 6-4, 6-3 victory over St. Louis' improving Earl ("Butch") Buchholz, 18, tag-along member of the victorious U.S. Davis Cup squad, flashed a game so crisp and deft that the experts were saying he might become the world's best...
Tandem Tactics. At Brisbane the Chief led off for the U.S. against Anderson, and from the first serve it was obvious that he found the match interesting. Before the astonished eyes of 18,000 Australian partisans, Olmedo charged repeatedly for killing volleys, managed an upset victory 8-6, 2-6, 9-7, 8-6. Then Barry MacKay lost as expected to Australia's Cooper to tie the match score. But next day Olmedo teamed with Ham Richardson in the doubles against Anderson and Neale Fraser. The U.S. pair promptly lost the first two sets, had to rally desperately...
Married. Ashley Cooper, 22, Australian tennis player, world's top-ranked amateur, 1958 champion at both Forest Hills and Wimbledon; and Helen Wood, 20, Miss Australia of 1957; two days after Australia lost the Davis Cup to the U.S. (see SPORT); in a wedding mobbed by 5,000 fans; in Brisbane...