Word: beasleyisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three young hopefuls most mentioned as candidates for next year's Davis Cup team are red-haired Donald Budge, Junior Champion Gene Mako, and Coach Mercer Beasley's prize protege Frank Parker. Yet last week not one of them lasted beyond the quarterfinals...
...Wills fasts: "Ho! Ho! Ho! Does the Missus fast? I'll say she don't. She eats everything she can lay her hands on." Crawford Burton, 48, dean of U. S. hunt riders, twice winner of the Maryland Hunt Cup, said: "I see that John Beasley won the Punchester Steeplechase in Ireland at the age of 72. His son, who is 49, finished second. So you see, I'm really just a kid at the game. . . . Training? The real ones train on love...
Fortnight ago the AP carried a story by Sports Editor George Carens of the Boston Transcript. It quoted Vines on the Davis Cup team and its non-playing leaders, Bernon S. Prentice and famed Coach Mercer Beasley, as follows...
...baggy knickerbockers which hang down to his shins. Almost unbeatable on clay, he should be a member of next year's Davis Cup team, think Lott and Vines. Parker's father, Paul Pajowski, is dead. His mother entrusts him to the care of famed Tennis Coach Mercer Beasley, who fervently hopes he will get beyond his present height of 5 ft. 9½in. Beasley's greeting to Parker when he returned from six weeks abroad to coach the Davis Cup team: "What's the matter? You haven't grown...
...team this year made more elaborate preparations than ever before. In addition to Bernon S. Prentice, non-playing captain, and a trainer to prevent Vines from eating too many cucumbers, as he did a year ago. the U. S. team had a coach: famed Mercer Beasley, who will be tennis instructor at Princeton next fall and whose able book, How to Play Tennis, was published by Doubleday Doran last week. Comment on Beasley's behavior by Colyumist W. O. McGeehan: "All through the match between Vines and Austin he sat like Madame de Farge at her knitting, only . . . instead...