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...Davis Cup tennis players, in the interzone final with Sweden at Brisbane, Australia, handily won all five matches (four singles, one doubles), earned the right to play Australia for the cup next week. In a remarkable singles match with Sven Davidson, young Ham Richardson beat the able Swede...
Married. William Orville Douglas, 56, Fair -Dealing, globe -trotting Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court; and Mrs. Mercedes Hester Davidson, 37, longtime friend, admirer, and researcher for the Justice's last three travel books; both for the second time (her first: onetime Assistant Secretary of the Interior C. Girard Davidson); in Tallulah...
...final of the Victorian Tournament, but that did not take the spotlight off floundering Lew Hoad (who had just turned 20 last fortnight). Hoad had barely stumbled through his opening match with Britain's young (20) Roger Becker. Then, in a match with Sweden's Sven Davidson, he eked out a precarious five-set victory. During the second and third sets, which he kicked away, Hoad heard a rare sound-an Australian crowd booing an Australian player. Said he later: "I just didn't give a hoot. I felt I didn't want to play. That...
...supplemented it with a three-point code. "First, I consider what's good for the boy. Second, what's good for the institution he represents, and third, what's good for the sport." These standards are not mere eyewash: Dick Clasby, injured in last year's Davidson game, might have made the difference in the Princeton game. But even though Clasby had a medical release, Jordan refused to use him, barking "I don't know when he'll be back" at the press. As a coach, he sets trite but essential examples of fitness for his team. He neither drinks...
...field goal early in the first quarter. It seemed to make his teammates nervous to be three points out in front of the Detroit Lions, the best professional football team in the business. Behind his own goal line to punt, just a few minutes later, Colt Quarterback Cotton Davidson got a glimpse of the whole Detroit line bearing down on him, fumbled the pass from center, watched Lion Guard Harley Sewell drop on the ball for a touchdown. After that the Colts and the crowd did not get a chance to forget that the Lions are champions of the National...