Word: pancho
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...American republic. But he is something of which the U.S. knows little: a cultured man of the world who is almost entirely of Indian blood, a man who, on the one hand, was educated at the Sorbonne; on the other, has ridden through Mexico's barren hills with Pancho Villa's guerrillas...
...that period Zapata, the wild-riding Pancho Villa and Venustiano Carranza were all carrying the agrarian revolt toward Mexico City. Padilla was "drafted" as a secretary to one of Villa's generals. In his incongruous stiff collar and city clothes, he joined the Villistas. Forced to flee in 1916, he went first to Cuba, then to Manhattan, which he reached penniless...
...Little Pancho Segura is the idol of Ecuador. Three years ago, at 16, he romped off with the tennis championship of the Bolivarian Olympics in Colombia. The following year, he won Argentina's River Plate tournament, the Wimbledon of South America. Last summer the Ecuadorian Government sent its beloved little Pancho to the U.S. to compete in the na tional championship at Forest Hills. Green on grass, young Segura did not last one round. But he stayed in the U.S., under the wing of Manhattan's Hispano Tennis Club, to try again this year...
Before last week's tournament, Pancho had played in three spring tune-ups: he won the coveted old Brooklyn champion ship (defeating onetime Czech Davis Cup per Ladislav Hecht in the final) ; reached the semi-finals (where he took two sets from onetime Wimbledon Champion Sid ney Wood) of the Orange (N.J.) Invitation Tournament...
...galleries. Australian Davis Cuppers Vivian McGrath and John Bromwich both held their racquets like baseball bats. McGrath used a two-handed grip for his backhand. Bromwich served with his right hand, switched to his left for shots on that side, used both hands for shots on his right side. Pancho Segura's two-fisted attack is less complicated, more spectacular. He uses both hands for both forehand and backhand (with a singlehanded follow-through on his backhand). Instead of slapping the ball, as Bromwich does, Pancho swings like Joe Di Maggio...