Word: match
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ashley, a graduate student and the favorite in the tournament, won his first round match over Ed Finkestein with little trouble, dropping only a single game in a 6-0, 6-1 triumph. Ashley is slated next to meet Hal Melvin, a member of the Varsity squad, with the winner scheduled to face Wighman...
Other team members who survived first and second round matches include Fred Flickinger, whose opening win was a bitter three-set affair, 6-2, 5-7, 9-7; Andy Muldoon, who won his first match by default; Travis Gresham, also a winner by default; Bill Mayleas, with a 6-1, 6-0 triumph, and Bill Brady, who had little trouble with his opening...
Your article, TIME, discloses Marysville's Methodists double-faulting at a crucial time in the match...
...Falling behind, trigger-tempered Wayne Sabin began swearing and banging balls out of the arena. At one point, Perry stopped the game, announced: "I won't play any more with a man who has such court manners." He was finally persuaded to go on, and lost. In another match, caper-cutting Frank Kovacs, who sometimes tries to outrage his opponents into bad playing, almost came to blows with Welby Van Horn, the defending champ...
...bushels of wheat. There was even optimistic talk that, with good crops in Canada, France and other countries, the demand for food would ease and grain prices would come down. Meanwhile, the retail prices of everything made of grain, bread, syrups, etc. were bound to go up to match the sky-high wholesale prices...