Word: emerson
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Australia's Challenge Round opponent this time was India, and rarely, if ever, have the Davis Cup finalists been so obviously mismatched. All four Aussies-Fred Stolle, Tony Roche, Roy Emerson and John Newcombe-were ranked among the top ten amateur tennis players in the world...
Maybe so. But in tennis, Australia springs eternal. Displaying the form that has won him two Wimbledon titles, four Australian championships, a U.S. and a French championship in the last four years, Emerson swept both of his singles matches in straight sets-polishing off Mukherjea in 66 min., Krishnan in 95 min. Fred Stolle's "big" serve, the biggest in the amateur game, did the rest. Aceing Krishnan twelve times and Mukherjea 20 times, Stolle won the other two singles matches to give the Davis Cup to Australia for the 21st time and the 14th in the last...
...real consolation for the losers came in reports that Emerson, at 30, was hanging up his racket and that Stolle, 28, was planning to turn pro-following in the footsteps of Dennis Ralston, the U.S.'s top-ranked player, who signed a $100,000 contract last week...
...Nordic captain Jim Sise, the Crimson swept the first seven places in cross-country competition. A freshman, Steve Hinkle, raced to an astounding second, while Marty Zeller and Alex Emerson took third and fourth...
...Emerson said that the only true gift is a gift of self. All the greatest presents bear him out, whether it is Cleopatra offering herself to Caesar wrapped in a rug, or-on a more spiritual plane-the Juggler of Our Lady giving all he has: his little art. Not everyone can offer his own composition, as Richard Wagner did when he gave the Siegfried Idyll to his wife. But the art of giving would be immensely enhanced if more people today took whatever skill and time they had to make gifts themselves...