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...Connelly, 67, British composer and music publisher, a onetime vaudeville pianist who authored or co-authored more than 200 songs, but is best remembered for a 1925 ditty dashed off with Fellow Trouper Jimmy Campbell on a train ride between engagements, Show me the Way to Go Home; in Bournemouth, England...
McKinley trounced British hard-courts champion Billy Knight, 8-6, 6-2, 6-3. Since the Cup matches were played on hard courts at Bournemouth, England, Knight played instead of Wilson, who is higher ranked in world competition but is not as strong a hard-court player as Knight...
...gamble by nonplaying captain Bob Kelleher paid off yesterday as the United States Davis Cup team took a 2-0 lead over Great Britain in the Interzone finals in Bournemouth, England...
...finals and impressed everyone before losing to Osuna. But one tournament does not make a tennis player, and Froehling had looked simply awful earlier this year. Apparently Kelleher decided to gamble with Froehling's hot hand and his experience on the kind of clay courts used at Bournemouth, rather than Ralston's erratic tennis. The gamble now seems to have paid off handsomely...
They had reason. Ever since the first game was played at Bournemouth, England, in 1876, water polo has ranked as one of the roughest, toughest sports. Played originally by porpoiselike 250 pounders, it was a game in which quarter was never asked, rarely given. Bloody noses and punctured eardrums (from ears boxed underwater) were common. A missing player could usually be found floating face down. Today, although the pace has quickened and rules have been tightened, water polo is still rugged. Says one A.A.U. oldtimer: "This is the only body-contact sport in which the rules forbid body contact...