Word: backhands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second line of Vietze, McVey and Dick Fischer counted in the last two goals which were scored at 9:54 and 16:02 of the third period. McVey got the first on a backhand rebound of another blue-line attempt by Ullyot...
...fourth singles, Charlie Hamm disposed of Yale's captain, Ed Meyer, 15-10, 15-11, 8-15, 17-15. After dropping the first two games, Meyer came back in the third, aided by several lapses on Hamm's backhand drive. The final game turned into somewhat of a slugging match as Meyer hoped to force Hamm into errors off his hard serve, but the Crimson player held on nicely to win the match...
Three weeks after she wedded for the first time, Tennis Star Gussie Moron, 32, as celebrated for her lace panties as for her backhand, ended a no-love match and sought an annulment. Said her industrialist husband: "I'm very unhappy about it. I still love...
...Upsets studded the first week of the All-England championships at Wimbledon, which more than ever seemed to be dominated by Australian men and U.S. women. Egypt's Jaroslav Drobny, 1954 champion, was beaten by an Indian with a rapier backhand called Ramanathan Krishnan. Ashley Cooper, the 19-year-old Australian whiz, beat third-seeded Sven Davidson of Sweden, and then Cooper himself was outlasted by unsung Allen Morris, onetime Georgia Tech footballer. Elegant Budge Patty, 1950 champion and seeded fourth, was ousted by Britain's hard-hitting but erratic 20-year-old Bobby Wilson. Luis Ayala...
...often erratic game. From Rangoon to Stockholm her concentration never wa vered. Only Angela Mortimer had the Indian sign on her (in the Scandinavian indoor, the Egyptian international and the Alexandria finals). But last week Althea clipped the wings of Angela, too. Uncertain footwork and an unreliable backhand are large faults to be covered up, even by Althea's grim determination. But so far Althea has managed. When she turns up at Wimbledon next month, her determination will have taken her a long way from her days as an object of polite curiosity. She will be the tournament...