Word: plodders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...over third-rate Mexico at New Orleans. Gangling, nerveless Ellsworth Vines, U. S. national champion and leading candidate for phenomenon, was still short of his top form. He seemed absentminded, possibly because of his planned marriage in June to Verle Low of California. Texan Wilmer Allison, a plodder, showed a few moments of brilliant tennis. The supposedly invincible doubles team of Allison & John Van Ryn needed four sets to win. This team will play Australia next; then, if victorious, the winner of the European zone finals; then, possibly, France (July 29-31) at the Stade Roland Garros in Auteuil. Notable...
Impartial House observers rate him thus: a steady-going unimaginative partisan plodder, thoroughly conservative in his fiscal policies...