Word: colins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...looked like the start of another sweep, but the Aussies were not through yet. Next day in the doubles, Bromwich and bespectacled Colin Long, a Davis Cup newcomer, were quick to take advantage of an uncertainty in Schroeder's forehand and a lack of sting in Kramer's service. Encouraged by an underdog-loving crowd that wildly cheered their winners and groaned sympathetically when they missed, Bromwich and Long broke Kramer's service three times, won the match in four sets...
There were also, of course, the Australians: blond, ambidextrous Jack Bromwich, husky, lob-loving Dinny Pails, bespectacled Colin Long (Bromwich's doubles partner) and temperamental Geoff Brown. They, too, had a lot to do. For their final five days of intensive practice, they engaged a sparring partner-U.S. Professional Frank Kovacs, the champion screwball of all tennis players. The Australian problem was clear-cut but tough: in just eight months they were trying to lift their outmoded, prewar game to U.S. standards...
...Montreal the Australian Davis Cup team of Jack Bromwich, Dinny Pails and Colin Long beat Czechoslovakia in the interzone final, 4-1. The Aussies will tackle the U.S. in the challenge round at Forest Hills, at the end of this month...
...Yard called in entomology experts of the British Museum. Who might have engineered this stunning crime? The answer was as obvious as cherchez la femme: only a person with a consuming love of lepidoptera. Last week the mystery was cleared up. In a West Ham court, Colin William Wyatt, a handsome, 38-year-old, onetime Cambridge ski champion, confessed all. Why had he done it? While he was in Australia (with the Air Force), his marriage had gone on the rocks. To forget, he had plunged into a hobby he had pursued since...
...kind of game that can beat him if I am absolutely right." On their match would probably turn the Davis Cup of 1946. Experts agreed that none of the other three Americans-Frank Parker, Ted Schroeder, Gardnar Mulloy-nor Australia's Adrian Quist, Dinny Pails and Newcomer Colin Long were any match for the Jacks...