Word: davision
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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¶Feeling the need for moral support in its battle with Pro Promoter Jack Kramer (TIME, Dec. 15). the Lawn Tennis Association of Australia asked the International Lawn Tennis Federation to ban Kramer's using amateur-controlled courts for his pro shows. Vexed by L.T.A.A. sniping, Kramer warned that...
Donnybrook Estates. In Alexandria, La., six house wreckers showed up at the home of Paul Davis, removed half the roof, most of the upper story and the front porch before Davis arrived and told them they were tearing down the wrong house.
Next he made fat offers to Ashley Cooper and Mai Anderson, the two players on whom Australia is depending to defend the Davis Cup. All the while he kept up a drumfire of criticism against the embattled L.T.A.A., many of whose members argued bitterly that Kramer should resign from the...
When the Australian press tired of chronicling the Kramer hassle, it turned loose all its superlatives on a lanky kid of 18 that Kramer has been grooming for the Cup matches. Brought along chiefly for experience, Earl ("Butch") Buchholz Jr. took hold under Kramer's tutelage, put some power...
Earl Blaik, Miami '18 (and West Point '20), developed brilliant but thin material into a powerful, razzle-dazzle Army team that went through the season unbeaten, compared favorably with the Blanchard-Davis powerhouses Blaik produced more than a decade ago.