Word: players
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tennis is one of the most graceful of games in its movements, and in its rhythm. It teaches the player to stand properly, because it encourages poise and balance. People who have played much tennis walk in a smooth and cat-like manner. If there is any excessive muscular development, it is because the strokes have been done incorrectly, and strain has been imposed unnecessarily upon muscles not prepared...
...care, nor would I mention it but for the fact that it conveys an erroneous impression of the game. Actually the difference in the size of my left and right arm is so slight as to be scarcely noticeable. Therefore it would seem that the casual player would run little danger of losing his muscular symmetry in the pursuit of tennis...
...born in Hamburg, the son of a double-bass player in the city orchestra. In his early years he was known as a piano virtuoso. At twenty he was slim, stooped, with fair hair and flashing blue eyes; among strangers he acted as shy, as embarrassed, as deferential as Charles Butterworth. His musical idols were Bach and Beethoven, and his weighty style bore traces of both...
Tripping in hockey is an infraction of the rules that calls for a two-minute penalty. Faced with the choice of a two-minute penalty or a goal for his opponents, a shrewd hockey player will often chance the penalty, and this was exactly what Forward Herb Lewis of the Detroit Red Wings did last week when it looked as though Neil Colville of the New York Rangers had a clear shot at the Detroit goal. What happened in the next split second caused the liveliest controversy of the 1937 hockey season, probably settled its most important series...
...break for the Red Wings, they deserved it because: 1) it was the first break they had had since the playoffs started, and 2) they were the better team. League leaders through the regular season, the Red Wings reached the playoffs handicapped by injuries to three of their best players, sustained two more in the playoffs when their star defenseman, Ebbie Goodfellow, and star goalie, Norman Smith, both went on the sidelines (TIME, April 5). A rookie team which nosed out the feeble Chicago Blackhawks for third place, the Rangers did not reach maximum efficiency until, when the season...