Word: parkers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that much excitement. Now that Jake Kramer had turned pro, nobody could cook up much enthusiasm for the U.S. singles team: 27-year-old Ted Schroeder, who helped take the cup in 1946 and 1947 but lost five of his six tournaments this year, and 32-year-old Frank Parker, whose mechanical, unemotional game after 15 years in top competition is about as exciting to watch as a meat grinder. The only new face would be Quist's singles teammate, Billy Sidwell, the 28-year-old rookie star of Australia's victory against Czechoslovakia (TIME...
Billy started off with a bang against Parker. He won the first game of the first set at love, racing into the forecourt in the wake of his stinging service. For a moment or two, the crowd thought they might be seeing a tennis match. But by the seventh game, Parker had figured out the Sidwell serve, and was methodically running the Australian ragged with lobs to the base line and trap shots just over the net. Parker won without cracking a smile or dropping...
...Just before the finals of the National Doubles, at Longwood Cricket Club in Massachusetts, Billy Talbert admitted: "Gardnar Mulloy and I want that Davis Cup doubles job the worst way." Talbert and Mulloy decided that the best way to get it was to beat their Davis Cup teammates, Frank Parker and Ted Schroeder, in the Longwood finals. Talbert fortified himself for the match with cold towels (against the 97° heat) and sugar (he has diabetes). Then he and Mulloy ganged up effectively on the erratic Schroeder with sharply angled placements, won their fourth National Doubles title...
...lackluster lot. At Newport, R.I., last week, in the Casino Invitation tournament, the old familiar faces went through their old familiar paces in a last unofficial singles warmup before Forest Hills. This week the Davis Cup committee, to nobody's surprise, picked Veterans Ted Schroeder, Gardnar Mulloy, Frank Parker and Billy Talbert to represent the U.S. against Australia. But the real news at Newport was made by youngsters whom the committee did not consider ripe enough for the team...
...Socialists, the Laborites were committed to planning for Africa. Commented a Tory M.P., Arthur Douglas Dodds Parker, in last week's debate: "With all their talk, Socialist plans are very scanty." Sample: the planners expected that by now they would be getting greatly increased production of Nigerian coal, peanuts and palm kernels. They neglected to provide increased transportation to move in these products. An order for 20 locomotives for Nigeria was given priority rating three years ago, but it had slipped behind 50 non-priority locomotives which the manufacturer wanted to deliver first for Britain's own railroads...