Word: panchos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When young (22) Pancho Gonzales turned pro last fall, U.S. amateur tennis lost the top man on its totem pole-and the only player in sight who might have sat it out for a while. At Forest Hills last week, the low men were scrambling for Pancho's old spot. The result was a good deal like the confusion in the heavyweight division when Joe Louis hung up his gloves...
...burdened with modesty, real or false. "Shall I string him along or blast him off the court?" As requested, he blasted an off-form Schroeder, 6-4, 6-3. Ham was not surprised; in a practice match last year, he had gone up against an unsuspecting Pancho Gonzales, and had beaten 1949's U.S. champion...
...powerful game was still erratic-now a siege gun, now a popgun. In the semifinals this week, he won a quick victory over Tony Trabert. But he wobbled next day in the final, and Herbie Flam took the title in straight sets, 6-1, 6-2, 6-2. With Pancho Gonzales turned pro, Ted Schroeder off his game, and the Aussies due next month, the U.S.'s Davis Cup pickers were a gloomy...
Both were war veterans. Richards, 56, a white-haired, restless oldtimer, had been on & off the firing line ever since (at 22) he covered Pershing's expedition against Pancho Villa for the old Denver Morning World. Later, Richards worked for newspapers in Honolulu, Tokyo and Shanghai, and covered the Sino-Japanese war. A onetime assistant city editor of Hearst's Los Angeles Examiner, Richards was its Washington correspondent when he took leave last fall to go to Korea as a special adviser on international affairs to President Syngman Rhee. He was planning to come home as war broke...
Ever since hard-hitting Pancho Gonzales followed Jack Kramer onto the professional trail, U.S. amateur tennis has become an old man's game. Going into the semi-finals of the national indoor tennis championships last week, 31-year-old Billy Talbert, who has won some 20 national titles in his time, sadly took note of the fact: "If the Davis Cup team were picked right now it would probably be composed of three old men, Ted Schroeder [28], Gardnar Mulloy...