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...term "tennis bums" was found for proficient young men who drifted from tournament to tournament, expenses paid. Top-flight players-Fred Perry, the ping-pong stylist, Ellsworth Vines, the lanky speed king, Don Budge, the redheaded wonder-turned pro and went on tour. Graceful girls in shorts refreshed the nation's sport pages. But top-flight competition could not survive World War II. "Somehow, anything seems more important at this point than tennis," said Ted Schroeder, before the tournament. The end of such pleasures was at hand...
Determined to oppose any dismissals whatever, the teachers denounced Mr. Wade's proposal. But the Board prepared to adopt it. Said its president, Ellsworth Buck: "There is not a single elementary school standee...
...best amateur golfers in the U.S. include a New Jersey printer named Billy Dear, Patty Berg's kid brother Herman, onetime world's No. 1 Tennist Ellsworth Vines and hard-boiled Jim Oleska, a Brooklyn cop with a cross-handed grip. Billy Dear was out of play last week because Mrs. Dear is expecting a little Dear this week. The rest of these low-scorers and 146 others who survived sectional qualifying tests met in Omaha for the 45th, most upsetting and least sportsmanlike U.S. Amateur golf championship...
...opening day it looked as if Ellsworth Vines might, with a little luck, become the first man to win a U.S. championship at both tennis and golf. With an elegant, easy swing similar to that of famed Francis Ouimet, Vines shot a 72 in the first round. It was not the best score of the day (bespectacled Skip Alexander of North Carolina turned in 67). But it was better than that posted by Defending Champion Dick Chapman, 1939 Champion Marvin ("Bud") Ward, onetime British Amateur Champion Charley Yates (now a U.S. Army private) and onetime U.S. Open and Amateur Champion...
Langdell scholarships to Joseph D. Block, of Marinette, Wisconsin, candidate for LL.B. University of Wisconsin '41; and Arthur LeR. Ellsworth, of Norman, Okla, candidate for LL.B. University of Oklahoma...