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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next night, as their 90-match tour began before 13,357 fans in Madison Square Garden, Pancho got his first workout as a pro. He rocked back and let go with his big weapon-a hard, high-twisting serve. Kramer, tense and continually wiping the palm of his racket hand between shots, fired Pancho's big serves right back and won the opening game. Then Pancho broke Kramer's equally big and more accurate serve...
Although the crowd was for Pancho, Kramer won the first set, 6-4, and only play at full-power form saved Gonzales the second one, 6-3. From then on, Big Jake bossed the situation like an instructor giving lessons to a prize pupil. He poured...
Pancho Gonzales took his first pro beating without a whimper. In the dressing-room later, he said: "There are no excuses. The light didn't bother me ... I wasn't nervous. I wasn't scared by the crowd. I wasn't thinking about the money either. Kramer held his service and I couldn't get my first ball in, so I lost. That's all, I lost...
...period the midshipmen made a game of it. Then Notre Dame's first-stringers ripped off three touchdowns in 8½ minutes, and Leahy went to work. He pulled out towering (6 ft. 4½ in.) Right End Leon Hart, perhaps the best all-round football player in the business, benched Tackle Jim Martin and gave All-America Fullback Emil ("Red") Sitko the rest of the afternoon off. By scraping the bottom of his substitute barrel and forbidding the use of the forward pass, Leahy held Notre Dame scoreless in the fourth period; But the score was already...
...First Turn. Capot, stung by a slash from Jockey Ted Atkinson's whip, gave everything he had from the break. The strategy was obvious.: stay with Coaltown, and make him give up. Atkinson kept shaking the reins and yelling at his mount. Alongside him, Jockey Steve Brooks did his best to pump a little extra speed from Coaltown. Like a runaway team, the two horses thundered past the grandstand and into the first turn...