Word: jakes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President did get some encouragement. Old Bill Green predicted: "The Republicans certainly won't get much labor support." From Chicago came word that Jake Arvey, who had been thumping for Ike Eisenhower, admitted that Harry Truman "has picked up a lot." The President also got some advice. Mississippi's John Rankin came out of the President's office and suggested that the secessionist Dixiecrats might stay hitched if the Democratic platform went no further on civil rights than the generalizations of the 1944 plank -which proclaimed that "racial and religious minorities have the right to live, develop...
...final, Big Jake faced a man he was tired of seeing. He had played Bobby Riggs 89 times in the past five months. "It's just a question of doing what you've done a lot of times before," said Big Jake. He did it again, beating Bobby...
Before flying off to South America on a tennis tour, Big Jake Kramer had a few odds & ends to clean up. One of them was the National Professional Tennis Championship at Forest Hills, N.Y. He didn't feel very keen about it: he didn't dare lose it, yet there was little added glory for him in winning it. And the $1,900 prize money meant nothing to a man who had grossed $87,000 in his first season as a pro. In this frame of mind, Kramer last week nearly got his comeuppance...
First, after breezing through two easy opponents, he ran into a stone wall in the form of Welby Van Horn. After five grueling sets, Big Jake wobbled to the marquee none too pleased about his narrow victory: "My racket felt like a baseball bat." Two days later he squared off against ex-Champion Don Budge. Again Big Jake was carried to five sets. Budge's famous backhand was never better, but at 33, his stamina was not so good. Despite all the tea and sugar he consumed, Budge collapsed in the fifth set, won only one point...
...cockiness had vanished. Against Kramer, he had to make tremendous shots to win points. After dropping the first set, 7-5, he kept slapping his thigh in befuddlement and frustration. Kramer's best weapons (serve, volley and overhead) worked with mechanical deadliness. Big Jake romped through the next...