Word: franke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...expected that much excitement. Now that Jake Kramer had turned pro, nobody could cook up much enthusiasm for the U.S. singles team: 27-year-old Ted Schroeder, who helped take the cup in 1946 and 1947 but lost five of his six tournaments this year, and 32-year-old Frank Parker, whose mechanical, unemotional game after 15 years in top competition is about as exciting to watch as a meat grinder. The only new face would be Quist's singles teammate, Billy Sidwell, the 28-year-old rookie star of Australia's victory against Czechoslovakia (TIME...
...crowd-pullers were ex-champions. The biggest gallery followed cocky Frank Stranahan, 26, the muscular millionaire Ohio playboy who won the British Amateur championship this year. And Spectator Bobby Jones, the onetime nonpareil (he won the U.S. Amateur title five times), had put his money on a neglected entry. Jones thought that this looked like the year for Ray Billows, 34, a Poughkeepsie salesman who had reached the finals twice before-and lost both times...
Perfect Creases. In the other bracket, breezing through his first five rounds, Frank Stranahan ran into Ray Billows in the quarterfinal. A big partisan crowd trailed the two golfers around the 6,617-yd. course. One of Bachelor Stranahan's pretty fans had no trouble predicting the winner. Said she, loud enough for the players to hear: "Frankie's pants have perfect creases. That other guy looks like a bum." Replied Billows affably: "Lady, I've got a nicely pressed suit in my locker -and I'll wear it tomorrow in my semifinal match." Stranahan...
...Just before the finals of the National Doubles, at Longwood Cricket Club in Massachusetts, Billy Talbert admitted: "Gardnar Mulloy and I want that Davis Cup doubles job the worst way." Talbert and Mulloy decided that the best way to get it was to beat their Davis Cup teammates, Frank Parker and Ted Schroeder, in the Longwood finals. Talbert fortified himself for the match with cold towels (against the 97° heat) and sugar (he has diabetes). Then he and Mulloy ganged up effectively on the erratic Schroeder with sharply angled placements, won their fourth National Doubles title...
...U.S.C.'s Jeff Cravath, Columbia's Lou Little, Notre Dame's Frank Leahy, Georgia's Wally Butts, Minnesota's Bernie Bierman, S.M.U.'s Matty Bell...