Word: jakes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week, with a breezy step, "Big Jake" Kramer marched into the game's sacred shrine at Forest Hills, L.I. He had a big grin and a quick "Hello" for everybody. He also had a brand-new crew haircut. That, he felt, was pretty important. He huffed & puffed through calisthenics, took a turn at rope-skipping, got in a businesslike three-hour practice session on the court...
...tennis season was at its peak, and there was plenty of work for the champ to do. There was also some relaxing to do, and Big Jake finally found time to read the last pages of a thriller-diller western called Magic of a Killer's Name. Dexer the Cowboy and his sawed-off sidekick. Long Tom, were blowing some varmints to kingdom come...
...Jake could see himself in Dexer's boots. After all, he had been born in Las Vegas, Nev., and might pass for a cowboy himself. He had clear blue eyes and a chipped front tooth. He was tall (6 ft. 1 in.) and gangly; his face was browned and his legs a little bowed-although he had never been closer to a horse than the bettors' booths on a race track. Just the same, the western he was reading had its points of similarity with his own situation. Ted Schroeder would be his sawed-off sidekick, of course...
...chief varmint of all, as Jake saw it, was a brash little guy with a quick trigger finger. His name was Bobby Riggs, twice world's professional tennis champion, and he was always yammering that Bobby Riggs was the world's greatest tennis star. Jake guessed he would have to go gunning for Bobby some...
...challenge round" to be decided in the U.S. since Australia took the cup home eight years ago. And next week, the 67th U.S. singles championship would get under way, with the best of the world's amateur stars trying their hardest to do the unlikely and dethrone King Jake...