Word: beasleyisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Before he turned professional, he played well enough to reach the semi-finals of the national clay court championship in 1920. Now nearing 40, he is spry enough to give any of his proteges a match, beat most of them except Hines and Wright. Without the methodology of Mercer Beasley, who trains New Orleans tennists with special wallboards, scrupulous diets and a set of original aphorisms, Coach Kenfield manages to give his pupils some of the feeling for placement, the sense of anticipation that he had to develop himself because his size made it hard to cover the court. Coach...
...West Point, Ga., charged with the murder of Charlene Johnson by stabbing her in the leg artery with a penknife. Negro Joe Beasley was freed when he showed Judge Novatus L. Barker a broken fingernail. Playing the piano at a dance, Joe Beasley had broken the nail, taken out the penknife between dances to pare it. Pushed in the crowd. Charlene Johnson had bumped into the knife, stabbed herself...
Other men entered are: G. Avery '33, E. S. Babbit, T. Baldwin, M. L. Baughman '35, F. B. Beasley 2GB, R. M. Bernstein '35, D. C. Braggiotti '35, R. A. B. Braggiotti '33, H. C. Brooks '36, Clark Bryan '33, Lincoln Bryant...
...Beasley Methods: "I rarely change natural grips. . . . We find that if the pivot comes in, direction will follow if the racket follows in a line to where the ball is sent. . . . We try to have the footwork done ahead of time and then at the moment of hitting, perfect control, no falling over sideways, no off balance. . . . There is no lack of decision. The training calls for audible calling of where the ball is to be sent. We have used semaphores placed back of the player receiving the ball, the other fellow would follow the signals. . . . I do not allow...
...Beasley: "I cannot play tennis. . I understand the strokes . . . expect absolute attention and concentration . . . have now acquired...