Word: cupful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...band struck up With a Little Bit of Luck at Brisbane's steaming Milton stadium, and it seemed the U.S. Davis Cup team would need plenty of it. Australia's Mai Anderson and Ashley Cooper were 10-to-1 favorites in what shaped up as the most lopsided cup challenge in years. The U.S. team had been racked by dissension. Ham Richardson, the U.S. top-ranked player, was dropped by nonplaying Captain Perry Jones as a singles player on the ground that his diabetic condition made him unfit to handle the workload, complained bitterly and publicly that...
...drive Cooper back from the net, move around to upset the Aussie's second service. It worked. Charging to the net, the Chief forced the attack, punched his volleys accurately, won 6-3, 4-6, 6-4, 8-6. Almost single-handed Alex Olmedo had won the Davis Cup...
Olmedo, 22-year-old Peruvian who was the sensation of America's Davis Cup victory, had to quit after playing 12 games as the partner of MacKay in doubles. He said the pain was so severe he could not serve...
PERTH, Australia, Jan. 5--Alex Olmedo and two of his triumphant U.S. Davis Cup teammates scored second round singles triumphs in the West Australian Tennis Championships today but another American, Chris Crawford, was beaten...
There were no surprises in other matches with other U.S. cup team members winning handily over Australian opponents...