Word: match
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...match between blond, ambidextrous Jack Bromwich and Ted Schroeder, it was again an all-court player with a "big service" and smashing net game against a baseline hugger. The match was exciting but sloppy. Schroeder's game lacks the finality of Kramer's, and last week Bromwich's hairline drives, particularly his two-fisted baseball swing on his right side, were only occasionally as good as they were in 1939, when the Australians won the cup. Grimacing and holding their heads at their errors, they split the first two sets; then temperamental Ted got his savage overhead...
...take advantage of an uncertainty in Schroeder's forehand and a lack of sting in Kramer's service. Encouraged by an underdog-loving crowd that wildly cheered their winners and groaned sympathetically when they missed, Bromwich and Long broke Kramer's service three times, won the match in four sets...
Tennis fans had not forgotten the 1939 challenge round when Bromwich and Adrian Quist were down 2-0, then won the doubles and the last two singles matches. It might inspire the 1947 challengers to outdo themselves. It was also enough to put the U.S. stars on their mettle. In next day's opening match, Schroeder beat Pails for the clincher that kept...
...triangle measuring several hundred feet to a side. By comparing the records of the three instruments he can measure the waves, and tell what direction they come from. His next step will be a larger triangle flanked by other instruments hundreds of miles from St. Louis. This attempt to match the atmospheric vibrations to changes in the weather may produce a new and valuable method of weather forecasting (the Navy has bet its $25,000 on the possibility that it will). Father Macelwane, though hopeful, is as cautious about his work as any other scientist: "We don't know...
...only second-round doubles match, Wendell and Zinsser edged out Anderson and Ashley in a see-saw match...