Word: duel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Joslyn and Joe Conzelman of the freshmen staged a punting duel, with the prep school athlete gaining the best end of the competition. Conzelman averaged just under 30 yards, while Joslyn had an amazing 43 yard average on four kicks
...Veteran Doris Hart, three-time U.S. runner-up. Only Akron's steady Shirley Fry then stood between Little Mo and the big crown. After a battle fought mostly from the baselines, Loser Fry surveyed the result (6-3, 1-6, 6-4), then ruefully said: "No one can duel with her at the baseline . . . Go up to the net against her? . . . Ridiculous...
...same day Linden in a key engagement downed Hollis-Stoughton in a closely fought duel, 5-4. This game was one of the hardest fought of the entire season, with frequent cries of pique and dudgeon permeating the vesperian...
...then stuck grimly to the base line while Savitt pounded out the next two sets, 6-3, 6-2. Young (22) Herb Flam, the U.S.'s second-ranking player and a tireless retriever, beat the Japanese champion, Jiro Kumamaru, at his own game, the base-line duel. Flam, too, had a tough time in the first set, but won it 7-5. Playing more aggressively against his 29-year-old rival, Flam whipped through the second at love, won the third, mainly from the base line...
...Grad School edged Holworthy the same day, with Turnor of the grads besting his mound opponent, Berry, 2-1, in a fine pitcher's duel...