Word: cupful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...31st World Table Tennis Championships at Nagoya, Japan, the Chinese were back again, reconfirming their prowess as the fastest wrists in the East. In the competition with 308 players from 54 countries, their 22-member team swept four of the seven main events and won the Swaythling Cup, the table tennis counterpart of the Davis Cup. Sometimes using the traditional "handshake" grip of the West (as opposed to the "penholder" grip developed in Japan), the Chinese took up aggressive stances barely a yard from the table and triumphed with relentless, smashing attacks...
...roughly equivalent to a baseball team's having ten .300 hitters. Center Phil Esposito alone netted 76, far surpassing the old record of 58 set by Chicago's Bobby Hull in 1969. Little wonder, then, that although the Bruins split the first two games of the Stanley Cup quarter-finals with the Montreal Canadiens, they were heavy favorites to repeat their 1970 cup victory...
...playmaking. Its popular image, though, is of a body-checking, fist-swinging style of play that delights the fans and keeps the players in stitches. BOBBY ORR AND THE ANIMALS PLAY TONIGHT, say the headlines when Boston comes to town. In one of the many scraps during their Stanley Cup opener, Bad Boy Defenseman Don Awrey twisted the neck of Canadien Marc Tardif's sweater so tightly that Tardif's breathing was cut off and he sank to the ice like a rag doll...
Pike Talbert, son of Davis Cup captain Bill Talbert, and Chris Warner play one and two in singles and make up the second doubles team. The first doubles team is composed of two nationally ranked squash players, Ty Griffin and Dave Johnson, second and ninth respectively in the college Nationals this winter...
After the Ivy Tourney, the spring season continues, with matches scheduled for "A". "B", and "C" squads. The televised Farmington Cup match against Princeton and "seven-a-side" tournament featuring teams from all over New England will highlight the rest of the year...