Word: champions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vastly surprised to find himself leading Wimbledon Champion Lew Hoad in the semi-finals of England's Midland Counties tennis championship, a 19-year-old Briton named Michael Davies was moved to try an ingenious bit of gamesmanship; he walked around the net to say that he was defaulting. Prevailed upon to change his mind, Davies went back to whip the startled Aussie, 6-3, 4-6, 6-4. After that Davies had nothing left. In the finals he lost to South Africa's Trevor Fancutt...
...originality in their attempt to find a new star. They have given the male lead (the role played previously by Russell Nype--that of assistant to the lady ambassador) to Dick Button '52, who up to now has been far less distinguished as an actor than as a world champion figure skater. The original Lindsay & Crouse script for Call Me Madam said nothing whatever about ice skating, but this difficulty has not fazed producers G. Sheldon Balloch and Clifford N. Lenox in the least. They have simply interpolated a couple of skating scenes and proceeded to re-build the play...
Jitters on the Center Court. For all his pique, eighth-seeded Vic Seixas did better than many higher-seeded stars. Sweden's third-seeded Sven Davidson was knocked off by an Australian unknown named Ashley Cooper, 19. Fifth-seeded ex-Champion (1954) Jaroslav Drobny, 34, was whipped by India's Ramanathan Krishnan, 19, an agile giant with a weak serve and badly sprained ankle. Fourth-seeded Budge Patty, 32, fell to an up-and-coming Briton named Bobby Wilson...
...transition from carefree vacationer to record-breaking competitor was no romp in the surf. Ever since Carin decided to become a champion she has submitted to an endless grind. In the winter she works out five days a week in the Y.M.-Y.W.C.A. pool near her Ridgewood home. Once a week she travels to Manhattan for professional training at the Women's Swimming Association. When the weather warms up, she spends every day at Ridgewood's outdoor municipal pool, swims a mile morning and evening when the pool is uncrowded. "Afternoons," says Carin, "I put on my plaid...
...order his wife not to bowl more than one night a week, complained that she considers herself too expert to play with him and that she spends four nights a week in the alleys, driven by the "unreasonable obsession" that she will one day be national women's champion...