Word: cuppers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Davis Cupper Ted Schroeder, 30, the Pacific Coast tennis championship; in Berkeley, Calif. Schroeder, still showing some of the slashing form that has won him six of eight Davis Cup matches, whipped Philadelphia's Vic Seixas, 6-4, 6-4, 6-2, in the final. U.S. Davis Cup hopes received an expected blow when 20-year-old Tony Trabert, national clay court champion, was forced to default a doubles match and report for duty with the Navy. ¶The University of Texas football team, eleventh in the pre-season rankings, over seventh-ranked Kentucky, 7-6; in Austin. Other...
Behind Gagliardi lay Defending Champion Sam Urzetta, 1949 Champion Charley Coe, and National Junior Champ Tommy Jacobs, at 16 the youngest golfer ever to reach the men's semifinals. Walker Cupper Frank Stranahan and 1951 British Amateur Titleholder Dick Chapman had already fallen in earlier rounds. Young Billy Maxwell blasted his way into the last round by knocking off 250-lb. Pittsburgh Realtor Jack Benson...
...Jaroslav Drobny, ex-Czech Davis Cup tennis player (victor over the U.S.'s Dick Savitt), over Italian Davis Cupper Gianni Cucelli (who upset the U.S.'s Wimbledon Champion Budge Patty), 6-1, 10-8, 6-0, for the Rome title...
...other Forest Hills finalist, Herb Flam, 22, was ranked No. 2, followed by Wimbledon Champion Budge Patty, 26, and U.S. Davis Cupper Ted Schroeder, 29. Others of the top ten: Gardnar Mulloy, Bill Talbert, Dick Savitt, Earl Cochell, Vic Seixas and Tom Brown...
...Blond, crew-cut Herbie Flam, 21, U.C.L.A. senior, and victor in the 1950 Clay Court Championships where he defeated the U.S.'s No. 1 Davis Cupper, Ted Schroeder...