Word: flam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unlike most top-notch junior tennis players from Southern California, Herbie Flam has a clumsy-looking cramped stroke, often hits his forehand while awkwardly facing the net. Last week at Kalamazoo, Mich., skinny, 17-year-old Herbie did something more characteristic of his region: without dropping a set, he won the National Junior Championship for the second straight year, beating Floridian Buddy Behrens in the final, 6-3, 9-7, 6-2. He also kept a record straight: since 1933, only Southern Californians have won the National Junior...
...stickler for "gentlemanly" conduct, Jones insists on immaculate all-white court clothes, impeccable court manners. Of his boys he says: "I'm more interested in how they live than in how they play." When he refused to back a Mexican lad named Gonzales, who could beat Herbie Flam, Jones was called a snob. He countered: "That's not true. I dropped him because he wouldn't go to school...
...realize you have done this for us." Ex-Jones boys who become champions are usually glad to reciprocate by teaching old tricks to his new prospects. Jones, who has seen six national amateur champions roll off his production line, now has one all picked out for 1950: Herbie Flam...
...PAUL J. FLAM...
...came the first day when 16-year-old Herb Flam (TIME, Aug. 13) began skidding on the smooth turf, shook off his shoes and blasted Argentina's No. 2 player, Heraldo Weiss off the court. There's a coming Davis Cupper, said wise old tongues. Next day, Lieut. Gardnar Mulloy was an upset victim, succumbing to Major Frank Guernsey, a pint-size fighter pilot who prefers golf to tennis...