Word: davision
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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A. L. DAVIS Glendale, Calif.
"The day he left for the States," recalled Jorge Harten, president of the Peruvian Tennis Federation, "two other friends and myself were the only ones who came to see him off. The Lima Lawn Tennis Club had not even let him train on its courts; he was not good enough...
The chant-"Olmedo! Olmedo! Ol-me-do!"-crashed across the apron as the champion, tall in his crisp blue suit, threw his arms around Sponsor Harten in an abrazo. With tears running down his face, he hugged his mother and father, his seven-year-old sister and his five brothers...
Under clear, late afternoon skies with the temperatures in the 70's, Harvard went ahead when left fielder Charlie Ravenel lined a fast ball over the left field wall, 291 feet away, in the second inning. Quantico came back with a run on another four-bagger, and the score remained...
But Wally Cook, who had come in to pitch extremely well for Harvard in the sixth, was the victim of bad luck when the marines got two unearned runs in the bottom of the ninth. The lights came on, and the game progressed until finally in the thirteenth Davis doubled...