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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When Pro Tennis Champ Pancho Gonzales, 29, heard that he and Lew Hoad, 22, Australia's recent convert to play-for-pay, were scheduled for last week's Tournament of Champions at Forest Hills' West Side Tennis Club, he intimated that Wimbledon Champ Hoad was not yet ready for big-time tennis (TIME, July 22). Pancho was right. First, Old Pros Ken Rosewall and Tony Trabert beat Hoad, then Gonzales whipped the new boy, 9-7, 6-4, 3-6, 6-3. ¶ Sailing in the Trans-Pacific yacht race from the Los Angeles coast to Honolulu...
Australia's Lew Hoad, 22, and Harlem's Althea Gibson, 29, are the power hitters of amateur tennis. Despite his occasional lapses, mostly charged to a youngster's sulks, Lew Hoad is the finest amateur in the world. But because of her lapses, generally charged to a lack of confidence in herself, Althea Gibson, the first Negro to crash big-time tennis, has only hovered on the edge of greatness. Last week, day after day, crowds of 20,000 packed the stadium at Wimbledon, England to see if Hoad could still lick the world, and to wonder...
Despotism & Love. Baring-Gould spent the last 43 of his 90 years at Lew Tren-chard, a manorial estate on the western edge of Dartmoor, on which he inherited the position of squire from his father. The Trenchard vicarage was at the squire's disposal, and Baring-Gould nominated himself .for' the job. As squarson, he combined physical and spiritual responsibility for his tenants in a delicate balance of despotism and love. Most mornings he made calls on his parishioners, among whom, says Author Purcell. "there was not a house he did not know, nor one in which...
Captain-elect Pete Reider garnered the other Crimson third, as he came in behind Connecticut's Lew Steiglitz and Princeton's Rod Zwirner in the two-mile. Despite his two-week exam period lay-off, Reider's time of 9:17.8 also broke a college record, but will not be considered...
...Design: Eugene Lew, for "The Medium...