Word: davises
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In his recent book, The Davis Cup, Author Edward Potter makes Dwight Davis sound like some sort of Olympian grease monkey. Potter means well:
his intent is to praise Davis for having given the game of tennis its proudest trophy in 1900. "It was as if some sage mechanic, looking over a creaking and unbalanced machine, discovered what was missing to make it run and added the one tiny cog which caused the contraption...
Today, Davis would be mortified at the creaking and unbalanced condition of the challenge series that bears his name. In Cleveland last week, the U.S. team won a desultory 5-0 victory over a hopelessly outclassed Rumanian club.
For its part, the U.S. did not do much to nurture East-West good will. The Cleveland courts were larded with three layers of asphalt and topped with a cementlike finish, all of which made the surface considerably faster than any the Rumanians have ever seen. The tourney was also...
The Chicago action is viewed as an armed return to the site of the bloody Democratic National Convention, five days of escalating action culminating in a disruption of the "Chicago 8" conspiracy trial. The eight, including Abbie Hoffman; Bobby Scale, national chairman of the Black Panthers; David Dellinger, national chairman...