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Unmatched Record. Big Bill was the John Barrymore of the courts, and the crowds loved it, even when he hurled his racket skyward shrieking. "Ye gods! Is there no justice?" after a linesman made a close call against him. Hands on hips, defying all tennis convention, Big Bill would glower at the offending official and ask coldly: "Would you like to correct your error...
When he was not haggling with the U.S.L.T.A. over his amateur expense account or browbeating officials, Big Bill was taking on all comers on the courts. A self-made athlete who did not reach the top until he was 27, some 20 years after he first picked up a racket as a youngster in Germantown, Pa., he piled up a record unmatched: 31 U.S. titles, including a singles sweep from 1920 to 1925, three Wimbledon titles (he was the first American to win in England), eleven Davis Cup teams, including a phenomenal stretch from 1920 to 1925 when he never...
...Name Fellow Traveler was a common figure of the 19405 who cheerfully threw his prestige behind party-line causes, then shouted in headline outrage when his motives were questioned. Largely because of hard-plugging congressional investigation, the Big-Name racket has all but petered out. Last week, in Manhattan, the House Committee on Un-American Activities heard some latter-day Big-Name testimony...
...were Australian riffraff -and well content to be, so long as nobody tried to reform them. Hector ran the "Sword of Fortune," a pub near Sydney's waterfront, where blood flowed almost as freely as beer. Grandma lived near by, pretending to be deaf yet privy to every racket within miles. Wilma had eight children, none legitimate. Fred, during a turn at the reform school, ate a tin of nails to spite the superintendent. Clarrie was a con man and the family intellectual: "It's a sort of poetry," he said, "to read over the names of race...
Most of the nation's sportswriters, before the bout, had called the fight an obvious mismatch. New York Post Sportswriter Jimmy Cannon put part of the blame on the NBC network: "The fight racket is now television's responsibility. It rs no longer an arena sport but a family divertissement. The networks should decide what their cameras gaze upon...