Word: pancho
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...easy to be both a star and a champ. Last year Dustin Hoffman won the Robert F. Kennedy Pro-Celebrity Tennis Tournament, beating Pancho Gonzales and Charlton Heston. Ever since, Hoffman has been haunted by his success. "It's been on my mind more than my wife and my family," the 5-ft. 6-in. actor admitted. "I can't concentrate on anything else-Watergate, sex, going to the bathroom." Warming up with Dave DeBusschere for the R.F.K. tournament later this month, the ex-McGovern supporter reflected: "Beating Pancho was nice, but the meaningful...
...Pancho Segura says that Court will learn the hard way what he and other veteran players know from long experience: "Never bet against Riggs." There was the time in 1939, for example, when the cocksure Riggs went to London, bet the bookies that he would win the singles, doubles and mixed doubles at Wimbledon-and went home $100,000 richer. Before one match with Don Budge, he strolled among the box seats placing bets with film stars and then went out and won in four sets. John Faunce, who used to hustle $20,000 to $30,000 every spring playing...
...good as Secretariat may be, he still has to prove his worth to Sham and his trainer, Frank ("Pancho") Martin. Before the Wood, Martin brazenly and unsuccessfully offered any takers the opportunity to bet $5,000 against his horse in a head-to-head contest with Secretariat. A Cuban who trains Sham for New York Contractor Sigmund Sommer, Martin is banking on the fact that no son of Bold Ruler has ever won a Derby, or any Triple Crown race for that matter. The Derby distance of 1¼ miles is too great, some believe, for Bold Ruler...
...drinking is confined to an occasional glass of beer. Stan Smith's most colorful expression is "Aw, shoot." Rod Laver does not even smoke. The tennis world has, in fact, sorely lacked an outstanding male player with personality to match since the heyday of dashing, temperamental Pancho Gonzales. Now there is a promising candidate for Pancho's old role. He is Breezy-Mannered Bachelor Bob Lutz, who last week became the first American in ten years to win the U.S. Professional Tennis Championship...
Pennsylvania has 34 lettermen back from last year, but an examination of last year's 4-5 Quakers indicates that this is a dubious asset. Pancho Micir, the Quakers' good roll-out quarterback, has graduated, but despite reports that Penn had no one to replace him, the fans at Franklin Field saw a 28 point offense sparked by sophomore quarterback Tom Pinto last Saturday. Admittedly, the victim was Lehigh, which has lost to Penn for the last 52 years in a row. Despite the promising offense and considerable depth on defense, the Quakers will be vying for the cellar again...