Word: kimura
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there are two ways to get to the top. Be a wonderful player, which you cannot be; the other, study." Mercer Beasley, handicapped by poor eye sight, chose study. In 1928 he became coach at Tulane. Since then he has acquired an elaborate methodology, a Persian cat named Baron Kimura, such prestige that the Davis Cup team last spring wired him: "We wish there was some way of taking you with us we feel this would give us at least 20 per cent better chance of winning. . . ." Some Beasleyisms...