Word: players
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Crimson captain and number one player Frank Dodge shot a good three-over-par 75 only to lose to Jumbo John Donohue's 71. Donohue, an excellent performer in collegiate circles, helped his own cause by sinking two 20-foot putts...
Identity & Independence. More than a superb physical specimen, the U.S. was looking for the mature man, well adjusted to life on earth and with a keen appreciation of his own importance and identity. The mission needed the strongly motivated team player-because Mercury will be a team project-who also is sufficiently self-assured and experienced in peril to act effectively on a solo mission, when he can rely only upon himself and his ship. Such versatile men best survived the shipwrecks of World War II and the prison camps of Korea...
...1840s with introducing the formal game to the U.S., where it found an early fan in Abraham Lincoln. In the modern, furiously fast sport, the ball can be hit with either hand (hand-ballers consider rackets sissy stuff). The most difficult shot is a "fly kill." in which the player takes the ball in the air off the front wall, hits it against a side wall at a sharp angle so that it has lost nearly all its forward speed by the time it reaches the front wall, skitters off it and drops dead...
...whistle a handball like a major-league pitcher. Before entering the Army, he worked for Kendler in Chicago. In the U.S.H.A. finals against Bob Brady, 36, a fireballing San Francisco cop, Private Sloan was at the peak of his methodical, calm game ("I'm a controlled kill player"), won going away (21-20, 21-9) to become indisputably the nation's handiest handballer...
Army took its only set at second singles, as Jim O'Connell, a strong player with a fine serve, lost to Bob Bowditch, 4-6, 6-0, 6-2. Bowditch, after a lot of difficulty with O'Connell's service in the first set, found his touch and overwhelmed the Cadet in the next two sets, although O'Connell made very few errors throughout the match...