Word: kovacses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sometown in the U. S. in 1914. learning that Archduke Ferdinand has been assassinated at Sarajevo, asks whether an archduke is like a prince. News of the mobilization of 17,000,000 Europeans is like the story of a distant railway wreck, a fire in a house far away. Then...
In years gone by, early July tournaments such as these caused only a raised eyebrow among U. S. tennis fans. Last week, however, with America's top-notch amateurs competing at home instead of at Wimbledon, the tennis world watched with interest. Most eyes were on North Conway. For...
Frank Kovacs (6 ft. 3 in his tennis socks) is the son of an immigrant Hungarian upholsterer, lives in Oakland on the same street as Don Budge. He got early pointers from Don's brother, Lloyd; later became a protégé of George Hudson, coach at the...
But young Kovacs, making his Eastern debut under the protective wing of Coach Hudson, promptly got into a fuss with the tennis brass hats (for walking out of a tournament), was dropped from the Davis Cup squad. In mid-season he severed relations with his coach, reportedly on advice of...
This summer, profiting by last winter's invitation tour of the Orient, Kovacs is belatedly living up to the promise he showed two years ago. Last month he whipped Frankie Parker in straight sets in the Missouri Valley championship. Last fortnight, in Long Island's Nassau Bowl tournament...