Word: mcneilled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last July, when Oklahoma's 22-year-old Donald McNeill won the National Intercollegiate Tennis Championship, U. S. fans chorused: "Watch McNeill!" McNeill had twice beaten Germany's Baron Gottfried von Cramm in Europe last year. He had won the French Hard Court Championship, trouncing U. S. Champion Bobby Riggs in straight sets in the final. Twice again this year, McNeill had outplayed Riggs-to win New Orleans' Sugar Bowl tournament and the U. S. Clay Court Championship. No Don Budge, he was nevertheless the most aggressive player U. S. fans had seen since King Don abdicated...
During the big-time grass-court tournaments this summer, solemn, steady Don McNeill, an honor student at Kenyon College, was overshadowed by long-legged, happy-go-lucky Frank Kovacs, a California comet whose spectacular shots and silly monkeyshines made him a favorite with the galleries. But last week, in the National Singles at Forest Hills, L. I., Don McNeill came into...
...Oklahoma's solemn Don McNeill, U. S. Intercollegiate champion: the Meadow Club tennis tournament, major tuneup for the National Singles championship; defeating (6-4, 6-3, 6-3) California's frivolous Frank Kovacs, who had drubbed U. S. Champion Bobby Riggs in the semifinals; at Southampton, L. I. After the conventional handshake, Clown Kovacs got McNeill to join him in a characteristically irreverent Kovacs pose...
...Forest Hills, Intercollegiate Champion Don McNeill, U. S. No. 3, defeated Florida's Frank Guernsey, 6-1, 6-1, 3-6, 6-3, in the final of the New York State clay-court championship...
When the field narrowed down to the semi-finalists-after two days of postponement because of rain-no one in the Merion Cricket Club stands was surprised at the survivors: McNeill, Hunt, Guernsey and Bill Talbert, University of Cincinnati up-&-comer, who had ousted Ted Schroeder in the quarterfinals. Tennis tournaments usually run truer to form than golf tournaments. Last week's was no exception. In the semifinals, Hunt put out Guernsey, McNeill put out Talbert. And in the final, sharpshooting, canny McNeill, seeded No. 1, subdued Hunt in straight sets, 7-5, 6-1, 6-1. Trooping...