Word: graebners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WALTER GRAEBNER London Sir: Ho-hum. Still another derogatory reference to Oshkosh. No, we do not have "the electric excitement of New York," but we do have schools in full operation, firemen and policemen doing their duties, plus regular garbage collection. Interested New Yorkers may contact our Chamber of Commerce...
First Since 1959. The busiest giant killers were a pair of bespectacled U.S. amateurs, Arthur Ashe and Clark Graebner. Ashe, ranked No. 13, polished off Okker and Australian Pro John Newcombe (No. 4); Graebner, who was unseeded, beat Aussie Pro Fred Stolle (No. 11) and Spain's Manuel Santana, who as No. 6 seed was the top-ranked amateur. Both advanced to the semifinals before losing-the first time since 1959 that two Americans had gone that...
...Lacoste, and marketed in the U.S. by the Wilson Sporting Goods Co. Gene Scott, 29, a Manhattan lawyer who never before had gotten past the quarter-finals of any major tournament, astounded the experts by reaching the semifinals before losing to Australia's top-seeded John Newcombe. Clark Graebner, a 23-year-old Ohioan who only two months ago was eliminated in the very first round of the national clay-court championships, got all the way to the finals, where he gave Newcombe a tussle before succumbing...
...Elbows. The new racket that Scott, Graebner and King used at Forest Hills looks for all the world like an oversized tea strainer. Made of tubular, chromium-plated steel, it is far more flexible than a wooden racket; its open-throat construction permits a faster swing with less effort. "It feels like a feather," says Billie Jean. Scott says the T2000 gives him a faster serve and better control on volleys. To Graebner, the T2000 has therapeutic value. Plagued for months by a painful case of "tennis elbow," he switched from wood to steel in July and the pain disappeared...
...tennis players were not even competing in the Nationals. They are all professionals, and in tennis, unlike golf, pros are never permitted to compete against amateurs-on the theory, presumably, that such "amateurs" as Australia's Roy Emerson, who was upset by the U.S.'s Clark Graebner in last week's quarterfinals at Forest Hills, would sully themselves by associating with people who openly play for pay. Emerson himself commands $10,000 a year as a "public relations consultant" for Philip Morris, another $6,000 as a "racket consultant" for Slazengers' sporting-goods firm, plus...