Word: rodding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...amateur tennis, only one man has achieved a grand slam of the game's four major tournaments-Don Budge, who in 1938 swept the Australian, French, Wimbledon and U.S. championships. Last week another name went into the record book beside Budge's. At Forest Hills, N.Y., Rod ("Rocket") Laver, a deceptively small (5 ft. 9 in.), bowlegged Australian, scored a smashing victory in the U.S. championships to complete his own remarkable sweep and match Budge's 24-year-old record. Laver did it by defeating Fellow Aussie Roy Emerson, the player who had beat...
...turned pro. I think I was the last guy who turned pro and won right away." At Forest Hills the word was that tennis buffs would get their answer this winter, that Laver would sign with the pros right after Australia's 1962 Davis Cup defense. But Rocket Rod himself was toying with the idea of remaining an amateur for at least one more year...
...heart-stopping cloud of spray, smoke and plywood. A Coast Guard helicopter plucked Driver Dallas Sartz from the wreckage, miraculously with nothing worse than a broken left leg. No sooner had the next heat roared away around the oblong course than another Seattle boat, Tempest, threw a connecting rod and burst into flames. The Coast Guard whirlybird dipped down to rescue Driver Chuck Hickling, but his boat was severely damaged...
...Mets. Without a decent pitcher, or a competent fielder on the team, the amazin' Mets are really in bad shape. Rookie secondbaseman Hot Rod Kanehl is the only young player of promise on the team, and despite the game determination of the fading Gil Hodges and Richie Ashburn to play again next season, the Mets may be even worse next year than they...
...amazing crop of rookies: Tom Tresh, Bernie Allen, Dick Radatz, Manny Jiminez, Dave Stenhouse, Cal, Koonce, and Rod Kanehl, and we've seen potential stars suddenly come into their own--Tommy Davis, Frank Howard, Richie Rollins, Don Drysdale, Chuck Hinton, to name only...