Word: cupped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Australia, boyish Jack Kramer, the player on whom the U.S. relied most heavily to win back the famed Davis Cup, didn't try to look too good too early. He passed a preliminary singles tourney so that he would not reach top form before he wanted to. But last week the workmen were building temporary stands in Melbourne's Kooyong Stadium to accommodate the Cup crowds, and Jack...
Hospitable Australians saw to it that the U.S. Davis Cup training table was filled with pitchers of milk-which is scarce in Melbourne-and T-bone steaks, which are scarcer. U.S. players got so many party invitations that they finally turned them all down. Jack Kramer got word that he had become a father-and was allowed one beer to celebrate...
...tennis stars had made the 7,800-mile trip to Melbourne, but only four could play. This week the four were picked who will represent the U.S. week after next in the Davis Cup finals against the Australians. Easygoing Jack Kramer seemed a cinch for the No. 1 singles berth...
With the United States Davis Cup squad in Australia, the remaining sixteen top men in the country including the two-handed racquet-wielder Pancho Segura, Bob Falkenburg, Seymour Greenberg, and Jack Tuero, are being invited to this meet. Its top-flight competition will not be new to Backe who ranked eighth nationally among Juniors in 1942 and in the same year advanced to the Sugar Bowl quarter-finals where he bowed to Billy Talbert only after forcing the doubles star to an extra...
...hand out aid to the politically unsavory as well as to the faithful, and finally must keep man-power where Washington thinks it belongs--on the farm, not in the army. Under such conditions approval for relief supplies could conceivably depend on the quality of a secretary's morning cup of coffee. Even the three countries Under Secretary of State Dean Acheson publicly stated would probably need aid--Italy, Austria, and Greece--don't fit the bill. Of the three, only Italy has not been charged with manipulating food for political ends, and the Italians themselves don't think distribution...