Word: cupped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most of the excitement in this year's Davis Cup challenge round came after the last match had been played. Led by John Newcombe, 23, the world's top-ranked amateur tennis player, Australia overpowered Spain to win the cup for the 15th time in the past 18 years. Immediately afterward, though, Newcombe and Teammates Tony Roche, 22, and Roy Emerson, 31, announced that they are turning pro-leaving the Aussies without a single player of world rank to defend the cup next year...
...Janeiro newspaper in 1966, it seemed to a lot of soccer fans that Edson Arantes do Nascimento, alias Pelé, alias the King, was indeed dead-or at least he had lost his crown. The exciting, agile, acrobatic youth who almost single-handed won Brazil the World Cup in 1958 and led his Santos team to two world professional-club championships was now 27, married, rich, overweight -naturally-and the goat of Brazil's loss to Hungary in the 1966 World Cup playoffs. The spotlight moved from Pelé to the pretenders: England's Bobby Charlton, Portugal...
...bibulous as distinguished from the meteorological sense, December in the U.S. is the wettest month of the year. The weather is usually dismal enough to call for the cup that cheers; but it is Christmas and New Year's Eve, those nationally permissive drinking occasions, that pop the cork and the bung and inspire a steady round of wassails. In a single month, the nation's drinkers buy an eighth part of their annual supply, some of it to give but a good share of it to consume. This year, December's national bill, for spirits alone...
male player and America's best hope for the future in Davis Cup competition, is also willing to risk losing his amateur status to play against the pros at Wimbledon. "I will play if I can get leave," says Ashe, currently serving as a lieutenant in the Army. "I'll stick my neck out - regardless of whether the U.S.L.T.A. backs Britain...
...kills Hope to concede a putt, too. Most players will do so if the distance between ball and cup is "within the leather"-the length measured from the bottom of the handgrip to the club head. Not Bob; he always insists on measuring with whatever club has the longest grip...