Word: backhands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After outplaying the Eagles for one and a half periods and building up a one-goal lead, the varsity sextet failed to take the initiative in the final stanza until B.C. wing Dick Dempsey had scored the winning tally with a hard backhand shot...
...sonority of a German military band"). Thereafter, he shaded old-style critics by his saucy phrases, e.g., hearing Violinist Jascha Heifetz overpower a sonatina "made one feel . . . that one had somehow got on the Queen Mary to go to Brooklyn." His compliments were apt to be delivered off his backhand: one composer, he said, "wrote Mexican music ... in the best Parisian syntax. No Indians around and no illiteracy...
Relaxed & Careful. A canny old campaigner, Drobny took his time warming up in the Wimbledon final. He chased only the shots he was sure he could get and he surprised the crowd by pounding steadily to Rosewall's backhand, probably the best in amateur tennis. The first set went to 13-11 before Drobny...
...finished to the satisfaction of Barnaby. The coach does, however, see great promise in Gravem's "fight, fire, and talent." Harris, who has fought his way up from number four to second, "improved phenomenally over the winter." He boasts a strong serve and has made great progress on his backhand...
...Choongs taught themselves a choppy, aggressive game. Without teachers, they developed a repertory of overhand, underhand and backhand shots, some of them highly unorthodox by Western standards. Says David: "We'll try any thing." Together, the Choongs went to London in 1950 to study law. But they seldom let their studies interfere with their badminton. Always just a little better than David, Eddie won more than 150 tournaments before the American Badminton Association invited him to the U.S. He reckons that he has traveled 500,000 miles just to keep badminton dates. Long barnstorming tours, tough matches day after...