Word: players
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the Kramer-Schroeder team was announced, Melbourne papers gleefully predicted that Walter Pate, the bright-eyed little Wall Street lawyer who has captained U.S. Davis Cuppers for twelve years, had made a mistake. Frank Parker, nationally ranked the second best singles player of the six Americans who made the trip, complained angrily because he wasn't chosen. At 1:30 p.m. that afternoon, when Schroeder strode out before 14,500 fans in Kooyong Stadium on a slippery grass court, the pressure was on him. He was to meet Jack Bromwich, Australia's big gun, in the opening...
Rush, Rest and Win. Captain Pate, who squatted beside the water buckets with a grin frozen on his face, had gambled on Schroeder, the money player. At first, it looked as if he had guessed wrong. Ambidextrous Bromwich, not quite as spry as of old, was nevertheless steady; Schroeder flubbed the simplest shots and lost the first set, 3-6. Then Schroeder, who plays with his mouth open, his tongue out and blowing ferociously, began to use his best weapon-a net game. He rushed the net at every chance, smashing beautifully and volleying down the lines with superb accuracy...
...Christmas pantomimes have not been wholly pure-i.e., perfectly silent-for a long time. Singing & dancing have been customary since 1723, spoken dialogue since 1814. The great joy of every panto player is the matchless exuberance of his audience. Last year Nervo & Knox, two fine slapstickers with 26 years in panto, so worked up their youthful audience against the Baron (Variety Artist Eddy Gray) that he could not speak his lines for the din; when Nervo yelled, "Come on, kids, let's kill the Baron," more than a hundred of them stormed on to the stage and stopped...
...Australia, boyish Jack Kramer, the player on whom the U.S. relied most heavily to win back the famed Davis Cup, didn't try to look too good too early. He passed a preliminary singles tourney so that he would not reach top form before he wanted to. But last week the workmen were building temporary stands in Melbourne's Kooyong Stadium to accommodate the Cup crowds, and Jack...
Stan Kenton is a toothy, tall (6 ft. 4½ in.) piano player who likes to talk about the "sincere sounds" his band makes. He had found that there were still plenty of jobs for young bands which were not fussy about one-night stands and didn't charge too much...