Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tennis pros tried it out indoors recently in Montreal, liked it so much that they are rolling it up and taking it with them for all their matches. Says Pro Tour Director Wally Dill: "Most of our players prefer it even to a grass court-the bounce is true, and it slows the game just enough so that the player's skill can show." In the coming weeks, Center Court will be installed at some 30 clubs, including Forest Hills' West Side Tennis Club and the Newport Casino. Predicts Newport Casino President Jimmy Van Alen: "These new courts...
...small kitchen facilities), rest rooms (the Soviets' ladies' room had but two cubicles), and intra-Expo transportation (the mini-rail was so popular that some visitors wanted to spend all their time just riding on it, and officials are now considering imposing a time limit). Montreal's Metro was so jammed that guards had to close down one station because of the panicky crush; workmen hurriedly placed another 500 trash cans on Expo's grounds to hold the extra refuse...
...Take hockey. At the end of the 70-game season, the league leaders are rewarded with $2,250 per man. Then the first four teams meet in the Stanley Cup playoffs for $5,250 per man-and all bets are off. Last week, the Toronto Maple Leafs walloped the Montreal Canadiens for their fourth Stanley Cup in six years. Only once in that time have they finished No. 1 in regular season play...
...bothered by a chronically bad back and talking about retirement after an illustrious 20-year career that won him four Vezina trophies as hockey's top goalie. The experts considered it a minor miracle when Toronto wound up the season third behind the Chicago Black Hawks and Montreal Canadiens-and awaited their speedy demise in the Stanley...
...stopped it, didn't I?" growled Sawchuk, and scrambled to his feet to make a fantastic 37 saves as Toronto skated off with a 4-2 victory. After that, the sixth game was an anticlimax. Toronto won it 3-1 and went on to the finals against Montreal...