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Specifically, his problem was whom to choose to play singles against England. Budge, the red-haired 20-year-old Californian whose game has been the sensation of the season, could of course be taken for granted. That left Allison and Sidney Wood eligible for the other singles position. Since U. S. chances seemed to depend on winning both singles matches against England's stylistic little "Bunny" Austin, the choice which confronted Captain Wear seemed quite likely to decide possession of the Cup. Wood is a tennis genius who, almost unbeatable on his best days, can play like a second...
...kill Braddock. I dreamed last night I hurt the boy. I woke up in a cold sweat." Most sportswriters had branded the contest a gross mismatch, had almost unanimously picked Baer to win in the first few rounds. In the first three rounds the fun-loving Californian justified his reputation for high jinks. Dancing about in his black trunks adorned with a six-pointed Star of David, Baer feinted ferociously with his right, then danced away again smirking at Braddock as if he were some huge private joke. Irritated at the champion's clowning, the crowd shouted encouragement, warnings...
That night there was the alumni banquet with a substitute hostess. When it was over President Sproul took pen & paper, had it out with Miss Ijams. No punch-puller, he wrote to the Daily Californian, student newspaper: "We are misrepresented by ill-advised zealots who lack balance wheels and by one or two alumni who are so unbelievably boorish as to insult publicly a guest of the university in mere pride of personal opinion...
Author Hammond's father was a Forty-Niner (which gives the same cachet to a Californian that a Mayflower-immigrant ancestor does to an Easterner) but not by his own choice: he was sent to San Francisco as an army officer. Young John grew up in an atmosphere of horses, guns and gold-mining. Says he: "I suppose I never was a tenderfoot." As his father wanted him to get an Eastern education, to Yale's Sheffield Scientific School he went. There he was a fair student, an outstanding athlete, captained the football and baseball teams, picked...
Starting with the 500-meter swim, the Californian shattered every time up to the mile. Medica is the holder of four world's records and the claimant of another four, and in addition is the national collegiate title holder in the 220-yard, 440-yard, and the 1500-meter events...