Word: elwood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year-old Elwood Cooke of Portland, Ore., a steady though unimaginative performer who sprang from 28th place to seventh in U. S. ranking last year and three weeks ago sprang a surprise on the brass hats of the United States Lawn Tennis Association when he reached the finals at Wimbledon and then put up a stubborn five-set struggle before letting Bobby Riggs take the world's No. 1 title...
...Oregonian Wayne Sabin, 23, a career tennist who thinks he is the second best player in the U. S. and can get several tennis fans to agree with him-primarily because his steady, all-round game has defeated almost every top-flight U. S. player (including his fellow-townsman Elwood Cooke four out of five times) in the circuit of southern tournaments last winter...
...Gave Out. The name of Willkie was originally Willcke. All four of Willkie's grandparents fled Germany after the revolts against the tottering Metternich absolutism in 1848. When Wendell was born in 1892 his father, Herman Willkie, was a lawyer and a wealthy landowner in the town of Elwood, Ind. (pop. 10,685). His mother was also a lawyer, the first woman member of the Indiana bar, and besides tending her family (six children, of whom Wendell was the third) helped her husband in his law practice. Elwood was then riding high. Natural gas had been discovered...
...Helen Wills Moody in retirement, U. S. stay-at-homes held out little hope for their Wimbledonians this year. But, after a fortnight of elimination matches, the two men who faced each other on the famed centre court were 21-year-old Bobby Riggs, U. S. No. 1, and Elwood Cooke, an unheralded 25-year-old Oregonian who had defeated France's Christian Boussus, England's Bunny Austin and Germany's Henner Henkel on his way to the final. Against his fellow countryman, however, Cooke faded. In a seesawing five-set struggle, Riggs finally...
THOMAS A. ELWOOD Director of Public Relations Automobile Club of Philadelphia Philadelphia...