Word: matches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity squash team will attempt to stretch its record to 5-0 this afternoon when it meets Williams at 4 p.m. on the Hemenway Courts. Captain Charlie Hamm will have the task of facing the Ephmen's experienced number one man in what promises to be the most exciting match of the afternoon...
...bulk of the pop record market with their singing, the industry's goslings have lately turned to the menacing practice of writing and warbling their own tunes. Paul Anka, 17, a Canadian boy with a voice like a grouse's cry and a compositional style to match, wrote and recorded (for ABC-Paramount) an amatory yawp of pain entitled So It's Goodbye, saw it become a favorite of the jukebox set. A carrot-haired New Jersey girl named Beverly Ross, 22, deserted the chicken farm where she grew up, traveled to Manhattan, made a hit record...
...have his game sharpened under the watchful eyes of Kramer and other pros. Olmedo had shown promise, but little of the determination most tennis players need to be great. Rather than practice, he preferred dating girls and going to dances, seldom played his best tennis unless he considered the match "interesting...
Tandem Tactics. At Brisbane the Chief led off for the U.S. 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...
...Minnesota Fats makes his headquarters at Bennington's in Chicago. In Eddie's world, Fats's name is spoken with reverence. Huge, lardy and gross. Fats plays with the grace of a virtuoso. Eddie takes him on, and for 40 hours they match their delicate skills. At one point Eddie is $18,000 ahead, and the great Fats seems to have met his master. But it is Eddie who cracks, turns to the bottle for help, and takes the pool beating of his life because, as an onlooker tells him later, he is "a born loser...