Word: pancho
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Like a Bullfight." Parker, twice national champion (1944 and 1945) and runner-up last year to Jake Kramer, played his aloof, passionless way into the quarter-finals without dropping a set. Then he encountered Richard ("Pancho") Gonzales, 20, the easygoing, hard-hitting Mexican-American from Los Angeles (TIME, May 19,1947), who was only No. 17 in the national ranking...
...Young Pancho, one of seven kids of a Hollywood studio painter, has been playing tennis since 1941, when his mother gave him a 51? racket for Christmas. School never interested him much ("If it was a warm day and the fellows said 'Let's go to the beach,' who was I to say no?"). Though Perry Jones, the Southern California tennis czar, looked askance, he quit high school in 1943 and then did a hitch in the Navy. He finally played his way back into Jones's good graces-and the tournament bids, expense money...
Parker, the model of tennis concentration, tried to shut out the partisan crowd from his consciousness. ("It was like a bullfight. I was the bull") But Parker couldn't handle Pancho's powerful but erratic serve or his incessant volleying attack. With a happy grin on his handsome scarface, the big (6 ft. 2 in.) Gonzales offered his victim to the crowd...
Power v. Style. The near-capacity crowd watching the semi-finals next day saw a study in contrasts. The first was a slugging match in which Gonzales and chunky, 26-year-old Jaroslav Drobny of Czechoslovakia slammed a total of 43 service aces at each other. Pancho wore him out in four sets, 8-10, 11-9, 6-0, 6-3. In the second match, it was style instead of power. Sturgess scored only two aces, Flam none. Time after time, Sturgess' deep forehand drives kicked up the chalk on Flam's baseline. When Flam moved...
John Reed, who later became a Soviet saint, rides on a raid with Pancho Villa (1914) and turns in a story that is half good fast Western, half a discussion of human liberty. In the same manner, H. L. Mencken ignores most of the who, what & when of the courtroom testimony in the Scopes evolution trial (1925) and tells the why of the trial in the mores of the backward, superstition-ridden hill folks...