Word: cramm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last July, when Oklahoma's 22-year-old Donald McNeill won the National Intercollegiate Tennis Championship, U. S. fans chorused: "Watch McNeill!" McNeill had twice beaten Germany's Baron Gottfried von Cramm in Europe last year. He had won the French Hard Court Championship, trouncing U. S. Champion Bobby Riggs in straight sets in the final. Twice again this year, McNeill had outplayed Riggs-to win New Orleans' Sugar Bowl tournament and the U. S. Clay Court Championship. No Don Budge, he was nevertheless the most aggressive player U. S. fans had seen since King Don abdicated...
...watching the Intercollegiate Tennis Championship last week did not have to be told who the topnotchers were. Most of them had long been familiar to tennis fans. Seeded No. 1 was 22-year-old Don McNeill of Kenyon College, who had twice defeated Germany's Baron Gottfried von Cramm, had won the U. S. indoor tennis championship two years ago, had trounced U. S. Champion Bobby Riggs in the final of the French hard-court championship at Paris last year, and last fortnight, at Chicago, had beaten Bobby Riggs and Frank Parker (top and second-ranking U. S. tennists...