Word: finalist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other Forest Hills finalist, Herb Flam, 22, was ranked No. 2, followed by Wimbledon Champion Budge Patty, 26, and U.S. Davis Cupper Ted Schroeder, 29. Others of the top ten: Gardnar Mulloy, Bill Talbert, Dick Savitt, Earl Cochell, Vic Seixas and Tom Brown...
Thereafter the team will play Bradley, an N.C.A.A. finalist last year, and Washington University of St. Louis, a particularly strong five...
Mulloy was wrong. In a semifinal match this week, he lost to the cool retrieving of Herbie Flam in a long, five-set match. Art Larsen subdued Dick Savitt to become the other finalist. One of the two would climb to the top of the totem pole this week, but the pole seemed stumpier than usual...
...Amateur an all-American windup for the second time in four years. They were 28-year-old Frank Stranahan of Toledo, Ohio, 1948 British Amateur winner, who had been hammering some of the longest shots of the week, and 39-year-old Dick Chapman, of Pinehurst, N.C., a 1947 finalist...
Handicapped by an injured leg and wrist, Vera was still able to win all five of his finalist matches in the eastern tournament. The leg injury kept him out of competition part of the season and probably led to the Crimson's loss of several close matches. Vera returned to score two wins in the Yale meet at the close of the season...