Word: bromwich
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ANGELES--John Bromwich, the ambidextrous Australian tennis star, jolted Bobby Riggs, Chicago, National Champion, from the Pacific Southwest tennis tournament today in a hard-fought 6-4, 6-4, 0-6, 6-3 match...
...Budge a pro, the seeded list for the national lawn tennis singles had mostly sophomores instead of Titans-listless Davis Cuppers Bobby Riggs and Frank Parker; Joe Hunt, Jack Kramer, Don Mc-Neill, Gil Hunt, Elwood Cooke. The foreign seedings might as well have stopped with Australians Jack Bromwich and Adrian Quist...
...lower bracket, the form favorite was Bromwich, the two-hander who plays tennis like a man batting out fungoes. In the quarter-final he easily dismissed Gil Hunt, the Washington, D. C. mathematician who sometimes uses a tennis court to demonstrate how he can balance a pencil on his bare toes. But in Jack's next match, he faced no eccentric pushover. He ran up against a 19-year-old, six-foot-one Golden Boy from California, unseeded and unsung, but the nearest thing to full Titan stature U. S. tennis has seen this season. Sidney Welby Van Horn...
...last week, instead of a Charlie Chaplin walkaway for 21-year-old Bobby Riggs, U. S. No. 1, the tournament for the Men's Singles became a three-front battle between Riggs and the two top-ranking Australians : young, ambidextrous John Bromwich (whom Riggs had 1-2-3'd on the first day of the Davis Cup matches) and seasoned, smart Adrian Quist (who had beaten Riggs on the last day of the matches...
Luck of the draw was with Riggs, for Quist and Bromwich were seeded in the same half. After four days of play in which the favorites advanced as expected, U. S. tennis fans hoped for a final between Riggs and one of the Australian invaders...