Word: kramer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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 Gilbert Hunt, Edward Alloo, Sidney Wood, Henry Prusoff, Frankie Parker...
...when he denied that his ownership of five Rush County farms made him a farmer ("I'm a purely conversational farmer. I never have done a stroke of work on a Rush County farm in my life and I hope I never have to. Louis Berkemier and Joe Kramer and the other fellows do the work. I merely do the talking"). They could nod, in sober understanding, when he said that he had spent 37 of his 48 years in their Midwest, and that now: "Bombs are raining down on England. . . . People who live and think as we have...
...Tennists Jack Kramer & Ted Schroeder, a pair of 19-year-old Californians: the National Doubles championship; beating Gardnar Mulloy & Henry Prusoff in the final, 6-4, 8-6, 9-7; at the Longwood Cricket Club, Brookline, Mass. For Partners Kramer & Schroeder, youngest players ever to win the U. S. Doubles, it was their twelfth victory in 15 tournaments...
Many a delegate who stayed was no better pleased with the way things went inside A. Y. C. Franklin Kramer, from the All-Campus Peace Federation of the University of Wisconsin, tried to get the Congress to denounce the suppression of civil liberties in Germany, Italy, Spain, Russia, the invasion of Finland. Not a chance. Complained Mr. Kramer: "I'd like to see a little deviation from the Communist Party line. . . . We never can attack the sacred cow of Russia or of Communism...
Seeded No. 2 was 21-year-old Joe Hunt, Annapolis midshipman, U. S. doubles player (with Jack Kramer) in the Davis Cup Challenge Round against Australia last summer. Chief rivals to McNeill and Hunt were: Frank Guernsey of Rice Institute, intercollegiate champion the past two years (neither Hunt nor McNeill competed last year); Ted Schroeder of Southern California, national junior champion; Dave Freeman of Pomona College, national badminton champion; Seymour Greenberg of Northwestern, national public parks champion...