Word: longwood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Just before the finals of the National Doubles, at Longwood Cricket Club in Massachusetts, Billy Talbert admitted: "Gardnar Mulloy and I want that Davis Cup doubles job the worst way." Talbert and Mulloy decided that the best way to get it was to beat their Davis Cup teammates, Frank Parker and Ted Schroeder, in the Longwood finals. Talbert fortified himself for the match with cold towels (against the 97° heat) and sugar (he has diabetes). Then he and Mulloy ganged up effectively on the erratic Schroeder with sharply angled placements, won their fourth National Doubles title...
...Longwood Cricket Club in Chestnut Hill, Mass., Australia was matched with Czechoslovakia in the Davis Cup interzone finals. After 27 countries had been eliminated, the survivors were fighting for the right to challenge the U.S. (last year's winner) next fortnight. Missing were the top 1947 Australian Davis Cuppers: Dinny Pails had turned pro, and John Bromwich (who hates airplanes) had refused to fly to the U.S. Australia was counting on overage (35) Captain Adrian "Quist, the national singles champion...
...present, Kramer is not even nibbling, and he definitely is not talking. If he can add the Davis Cup and the 1947 U.S. singles crown to the doubles championship which he and Schroeder won at Longwood last week, he can almost name his own price...
Bill Bingham will be one of the principal speakers, and during the course of the evening the annual improvement prizes will be awarded. Any former member of the track team-may attend by making reservations with manager George Caploe (Longwood 4770) by noon Monday. Retired groundskeeper Mike Holly will be the guest of honor...
...music of Russia, Chile, and the United States will be represented in the concert, which includes works by Stravinsky, Orrego, Haieff, Taima, and Douglas P. Allanbrook '48. The last two composers will play their own aorks, while members of the music Clubs, as sisted by two singers from the Longwood School, will perform the remainder of the selections...