Word: kovacses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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End of a Fishing Trip. At this point 19-year-old Seaman Albert Kovacs, with his brother James, appeared on the dangerously crowded stage. Al, a veteran of the Pacific, now stationed at Portsmouth, had been fishing. He had had a date with Faith Coombs, an 18-year-old high...
In 1918, nine of the first ten ranking U.S. tennists were in the armed forces. This year the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association has again lost its headliners, though not to the war alone. Four of the first ten (Don McNeill, Ted Schroeder, Gardnar Mulloy, Bitsy Grant) are in the service...
> Victor Seixas, 18-year-old University of North Carolina freshman; the North & South Singles tennis championship; defeating Harris Everett, another Tarheel, in the final, 2-6, 6-8, 7-5, 6-0, 6-2; at Pinehurst, N.C. Since Bobby Riggs, Frank Kovacs, Welby Van Horn and Wayne Sabin have turned...
Clowning Frank Kovacs: his first match as a professional tennist; defeating Don Budge, onetime nonpareil; 6-4, 2-6, 6-4; before a crowd of 11,000; at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. In the other singles match of the opening performance of an 80-city tour, Bobby Riggs...
"Amateur tennis stinks-there's no money in it any more." With this overhead smash, 21-year-old Frank Kovacs, second-ranking tennist in the U.S., turned pro last week. So did 23-year-old Bobby Riggs, U.S. No. 1. For 22 weeks, starting Dec. 26 in Manhattan'...