Word: kovacses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was no Tilden, no Budge, no Perry, no Vines on the courts at Forest Hills last week-biggest week of the tennis year. There was one big fellow that the professional tennis promoters wanted -if he won the national singles title. That was Frank Kovacs.
In Bucharest there was a carnival of arresting "grafters." Former premiers, former ministers, rich men and almost anyone who ever had anything to do with a Government contract were locked up. It was radiorated that $11,000,000 had been found in a secret Government fund. New York Timesman Eugen...
During the big-time grass-court tournaments this summer, solemn, steady Don McNeill, an honor student at Kenyon College, was overshadowed by long-legged, happy-go-lucky Frank Kovacs, a California comet whose spectacular shots and silly monkeyshines made him a favorite with the galleries. But last week, in the...
While Kovacs, more intent on horse play than tennis, was eliminated in the quarter-finals by Annapolis Midshipman Joe Hunt, McNeill streaked through to the final - beating along the way young Jack Kramer, the boy wonder of this year's tournament, who had defeated, earlier in the week, Topnotchers...
¶Oklahoma's solemn Don McNeill, U. S. Intercollegiate champion: the Meadow Club tennis tournament, major tuneup for the National Singles championship; defeating (6-4, 6-3, 6-3) California's frivolous Frank Kovacs, who had drubbed U. S. Champion Bobby Riggs in the semifinals; at Southampton, L...