Word: cupper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Said Pancho: "I don't think he'll ever beat me again unless he's playing especially good and I'm bad." It was a big victory for Pancho, even though he went on to lose to the best amateur in the U.S., Davis Cupper Jack Kramer. Pancho aced Kramer six times, won a set before bowing out, 6-2, 6-4, 3-6, 6-3. Bad Boy Pancho might yet get to Forest Hills and Wimbledon. He is only 19 and there is plenty of time...
...armed strokes and debonair air were unmistakable. It was Jean Borotra all right, back on the same Manhattan courts where he had four times won the U.S. indoor tennis title (1925, 1927, 1929, 1931). The occasion: an exhibition match with an old rival, the U.S.'s ex-Davis Cupper Francis X. Shields...
...baseline, matched Wood's finesse with power and control, won in three hard-fought sets, 6-3, 6-4. 6-4. In the finals, two days later, he faced Bobby Falkenburg (brother of Jinx), whose tremendous first serve and smashing net game had been too much for Davis Cupper Billy Talbert. Kramer's return of service made the big serve look less sizeable. As effortlessly as if he were playing table tennis, Kramer kept ramming Falkenburg's cannonball right back up the cannon, and walked away with the match, 6-1, 6-2, 6-2. Throughout...
First of the ex-kings to fall was long-faced, impetuous Bill Tilden, whose tennis was good for a 53-year-old but not good enough to beat 30-year-old Wayne Sabin. Sabin advanced to the quarterfinals, there met Britain's onetime Davis Cupper Fred Perry. Falling behind, trigger-tempered Wayne Sabin began swearing and banging balls out of the arena. At one point, Perry stopped the game, announced: "I won't play any more with a man who has such court manners." He was finally persuaded to go on, and lost. In another match, caper-cutting...
Married. Bryan M. ("Bitsy") Grant, 35, former Davis Cupper; and Marie Cleveland, 35, no tennis player; in Atlanta. Bitsy took his bride and three rackets on a honeymoon to Florida and Bermuda...