Word: parkerisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Frankie Parker is a 19-year-old tennist from Milwaukee. Two years ago, his promise made such a profound impression upon Mercer Beasley that that famed coach not only undertook to improve his game but legally adopted him, sent him to Lawrenceville. Last week, at Forest Hills, N. Y., Frankie Parker played Champion Fred Perry in the fourth round of the National Men's Singles Championship and lost, 4-6, 2-6, 0-6. Other things being equal, he should therewith have disappeared from public notice. Instead it rained for four days...
...began when the New York Herald Tribune ran a two-column story to the effect that Frankie Parker had decided not to return to school. Instead, he would spend a winter in Bermuda, where Mercer Beasley teaches tennis. Said Frankie Parker: "You know what my forehand shot is or rather what it isn't. . . . I figure that I can't get anywhere unless I give more time to the game. . . ." It continued the next day, with a letter from Holcombe Ward, chairman of the U. S. Davis Cup Committee, urging Frankie Parker not to give up school. Said...
Next day the sun came out and the strange epic of Frankie Parker's adolescent turmoils vanished from sports pages, editorials and columns as quickly as the puddles on the West Side Tennis Club's courts. Frank Shields, playing better than ever before in his life, took one set and twice missed the point that would have given him another before he lost to Champion Perry, 4-6, 6-4, 6-8, 0-6. Three days after the schedule had called for the championships to end, Perry, Allison, Budge, Grant, Wood remained in the men's single...
...CUNNING MULATTO AND OTHER CASES or ELLIS PARKER, AMERICAN DETECTIVE-Fletcher Pratt-Smith & Haas...
...years Ellis Parker, round, short, grey-haired and good-natured, has been a practicing detective in Mount Holly, N. J. (pop. 6,573). He has worked on about 300 cases, principally crimes of violence. According to Fletcher Pratt, "he is probably the best detective in America if not in the world." Last week Author Pratt, heretofore recognized as a historian (Ordeal by Fire), offered a volume containing accounts of twelve of Ellis Parker's more sensational successes. Less a batch of detective stories than a collection of analyses of human behavior in moments of crisis, The Cunning Mulatto...