Word: kramer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...comers that any defeat was considered something of an accident. Last week the young ex-amateur kings learned something about the hazards of their new trade. Making their professional debuts in Los Angeles and New York, Sedgman, 25, and McGregor, 23, smashed head on into Old Pros Jack Kramer and Pancho Segura, two 31-year-old tennis oldsters...
...days later, cashing in on their smashing cup performance, Sedgman and McGregor announced that they were giving up the short green grass of amateur play for the long green of professional tennis: a whopping $100,000 guarantee from Pro Promoter Jack Kramer. Teaming up with Pancho Segura, Tennist Kramer will meet Sedgman and McGregor in a nationwide tour that starts in Los Angeles this week...
Against the Best. Promoter Kramer was just as eager for the tour to start. Though seven years older than Sedgman, Kramer still commands the all-court game that won him two U.S. singles titles and one at Wimbledon and helped bring back the Davis Cup from Australia in 1946. In his pro tours, Kramer has whipped the best available: Bobby Riggs, 69-20; Pancho Gonzales, 96-27; and Segura...
...Said Kramer, with an eye on the turnstiles: "I can beat Sedgman. In amateur tennis, you might play 25 tough matches in a year. We'll be playing 90 singles matches in five months, plus lots of doubles. I can promise they'll all be tough...
...Member of the Wedding (Stanley Kramer; Columbia). Carson McCullers' poetic play about a twelve-year-old girl's growing pains, with Julie Harris, Ethel Waters and Brandon de Wilde in their original Broadway parts (TIME...