Word: backhanding
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...Neill gave up a hit an inning in each of the first, second, fifth, and sixth. Ed Foynes opened the game with a double when Holy Cross left fielder Dick Hogan tried for a diving backhand of his drive down the foul line and couldn't hold the ball. But the next three men were retired in order...
...last period Joe Kittredge slipped in a backhand shot (his forty-sixth point of the season) on assists from Busty Burke and Hal Marshall, for the Crimson's only score. Yale added an insurance goal with two minutes to go in the last period...
...this was that, by the Australian championship last week, Savitt was playing a "big game" with more style than he had ever shown before. Sedgman and McGregor repeatedly found his serves too hot to handle, and his base-line drives from forehand and backhand kept them more often than not on the defensive. It took him five sets against Sedgman (2-6, 7-5, 1-6, 6-3, 6-4), four against McGregor...
...Print That!" The Sydney press hailed him as "one of the world's best base-line players," possessed of a "killer spirit" and "the finest backhand we've seen since Donald Budge won our championship in 1938." Said Savitt, making Mother's point again: "At Cornell the weather was too bad for tennis in winter. This is the first time I've ever had an opportunity to play tennis past September...
...raced through the National Junior field at Kalamazoo, Mich., there was plenty to watch. Slim (155 Ibs.), tall (5 ft. 11½ in.), and still growing, Ham had a solid service, a clean, running forehand that took the ball on the rise, Fred Perry fashion, and a flat, whistling backhand (at present, his best stroke), apparently so effortless that his placements with it seemed almost accidental. He could volley and drop-volley with a skill that juniors seldom have had time to learn...