Word: australian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...South Africa's Eric Sturgess, 29, whose smooth ground strokes are reminiscent of the days when tennis was played, and won, from the base line. By the semifinals of the French tournament not one of the slam-bang U.S. players was left, and the pride of the victorious Australian Davis Cup team, Frank Sedgman and Ken McGregor, fell before the patient craftiness of the two aging veterans...
FRANK SEDGMAN, 23, seeded No. 1 at Wimbledon this year, the stocky two-time Australian champion and Davis Cup mainstay, whose siege-gun game, when he is "up," is probably the amateur world's best...
Died. Joseph Benedict Chifley, 65, Australian blacksmith's son who developed a knack for finance, became the Commonwealth's World War II Treasurer, its Labor Prime Minister from 1945 to 1949; of a heart attack; in Canberra...
...other scheduled activities include a speech at the Seminar of the Australian National University during the 50th anniversary celebration of the Australian Commonwealth and a two-day stay in Honolulu, July 10 and 11, where he will interview Harvard alumni. The Conants plan to return to Cambridge September...
...breezed through to an easy victory in spite of a final-round 75, finished up with a total 347-13 strokes under par and twelve points ahead of Runner-Up Ferrier. This week, as the U.S. Open gets under way at Birmingham, Mich., South Africa's Bobby Locke, Australian Jim Ferrier and the newcomer from the Argentine seemed to be the players with the best chance to upset the Sneads and the Hogans. If one "of them wins, it will be the first time that the U.S. title has gone to an invader since Britain...