Word: kramer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...match at the Boston Garden Saturday night was the twenty-second in a series of one hundred which will carry Jack Kramer's troupe to Europe for exhibitions before the most enthusiastic tennis fans in the world. The winner of the 100 match series receives a bonus $25,000 contract...
...trivial triangle plot, raised above itself by unerringly accurate writing-and by the reader's chilling realization that its worldly insights were achieved by a 17-year-old author. It was the most successful book from outside the English-speaking world. The Germans continued to disappoint (Gerhard Kramer's We Shall March Again, and Heinrich Büll's Adam, Where Art Thou?), but other countries contributed moving items...
...learning a valuable lesson: power alone is not enough against the best pros. Pancho-leaner and harder than he ever was during his brief career as a light-hearted amateur tournament traveler-ran Tony right off the court, 6-2, 6-2. It left Promoter Jack Kramer with a real problem : Can Tony learn his trade fast enough to make the tour a success? If not, Big Jake will have to go back in training himself, and Tony's first-tour salary will seem much smaller as it stretches out over thinner seasons...
...KRAMER Philadelphia
...Promoter Jack Kramer raised his bid from $45,000 to $56,000 and flew to Melbourne to make a personal plea to Australian Tennis Star Lewis Hoad to sign a pro contract. Hoad, after talking it over with his wife Jennifer, again turned down the offer. Said Kramer: "I never again will underestimate the power of a woman...