Word: schaffer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hockey fever has led to a surge in the construction of rinks. In 1967, the year the N.H.L. created an expansion team in St. Louis, there were six rinks there. Now the city has twelve indoor and six outdoor rinks. Ben Schaffer, an administrator with the Essex County, N.J., park commission, says that the county has five rinks. "Five years ago," adds Schaffer, "there weren't even five rinks in the whole state." The demand is not slackening. Barry Wolkon, who has just opened a $3 million, two-rink complex in New York's Rockland County, says...
Thal's cool precision took its toll on Schaffer in the second set as Schaffer lost her poise and continually double-faulted in crucial situations...
...clay courts are much slower than the hard courts and I had to concentrate on placing the ball where Schaffer couldn't return it," Thal said yesterday. "She wasn't coming up to the net so I took advantage of her with short drop shots...
...opening match, freshman Denise Thal outplayed Brandeis's Brenda Schaffer, 7-6, 6-3. The victory was a sweet one for Thal because her opponent was rated second in the 18-and-under singles competition last spring by the New England section of the United States Lawn Tennis Association...
Thal continually drove Schaffer all over the court with well-placed shots, often forcing her opponent into making off-balanced, high-lobbing returns which Thal converted into carefully-angled shallow shots that Schaffer couldn't manage to reach...