Word: competitors
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Coach John McCarthy plans to shift Muscatine and Thal to first doubles next weekend, leaving Magraw and Funaro the top two singles spots. "Magraw's a tremendous competitor," McCarthy said yesterday. "I'm very confident with her at first singles...
...heats were exciting ones--the teams never finished more than four-tenths of a second apart. But when Radcliffe placed third behind Washington and first-place Victoria, thus being disqualified from the finals, the question was raised whether Radcliffe could be displaced by a foreign competitor in the American nationals. The winner of the National Women's Rowing Association (NWRA) championship each year represents the United States in international competition. But displaced...
...match on Tuesday of this week killed even the hope that Tiriac might still be a calculating competitor. Leading in the last match, Tiriac became enraged over a call and stalked off the court with his doubles partner. The other team seemed ready to play the point over, but the umpires wouldn't relent. They were given 30 seconds to return to the court. No show, and they forfeited the game. They were given 30 seconds to return or face losing the remaining games in the match. Tiriac sulked to moral victory as the Lobsters gave the match away...
King is the best WTT competitor. The cheers she led against the Pittsburgh Triangles in the opening match provoked venerable player-captain Ken Rosewall into storming over to the Freedoms' bench to lecture her against abusing his players. It waff almost as good as professional wrestling without the wooden acting. Rosewall was genuinely mad; the cool man had been razzed by a woman...
...state taxes last year. He surprised even himself by rolling up 68% of the unusually light vote (less than one-fourth of those eligible) and swamping Farenthold, 47, a reform-minded liberal who is the national chairwoman of the Women's Political Caucus. Farenthold was a strong competitor in the primary two years ago, but this time she was hampered by lack of funds, and her campaign never caught fire. She is currently still running for office-alumna trustee of Vassar College -but has not decided on her future political plans in Texas...