Word: mackays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time this bill of particulars reached the delegates. Vice President Hromadka had already left on his way home to Prague. Said Dr. John Mackay, ex-president of Princeton Theological Seminary: "Dr. Hromadka does his utmost to adjust himself as much as a Christian can to a political situation. Christians have had to do this ever since the Roman Empire. There is more religious freedom in Communist Czechoslovakia today than in Catholic Spain...
...them. But his charging, slashing game stiffens under pressure, and at Wimbledon the going was tough enough to challenge his mastery. Ranged against him were Australia's nimble Rod Laver, 20, and dark-haired Roy Emerson, 22, and America's moody, towering (6 ft. 4 in.) Barry MacKay. 23, Olmedo's Davis Cup teammate against Australia last winter. MacKay did not get beyond the semifinals, wilting before Laver's dogged retrieving, and that left Wimbledon to Olmedo and the two Aussies...
...against Anderson, and from the first serve it was obvious that he found the match interesting. Before the astonished eyes of 18,000 Australian partisans, Olmedo charged repeatedly for killing volleys, managed an upset victory 8-6, 2-6, 9-7, 8-6. Then Barry MacKay lost as expected to Australia's Cooper to tie the match score. But next day Olmedo teamed with Ham Richardson in the doubles against Anderson and Neale Fraser. The U.S. pair promptly lost the first two sets, had to rally desperately to win the third 16-14. In the break before the fourth...
...MacKay and Buchholz will meet for the right to go into the finals against Spain's Andres Gimeno, who advanced through Olmedo's default...
Olmedo, 22-year-old Peruvian who was the sensation of America's Davis Cup victory, had to quit after playing 12 games as the partner of MacKay in doubles. He said the pain was so severe he could not serve...