Word: sedgman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hour later, Savitt was up to his neck in hot water again, and again he lost. He and Richardson were playing in a postponed final set of a doubles match with McGregor and Frank Sedgman. Both Savitt and Sedgman won their serves in the opening games. Then Richardson, the only player on the court consistent enough to hold his service in the first four sets, footfaulted three times in the first two points of the third game. Savitt threw his arms in the air, stopped play, and demanded to know what was wrong. He was told that Richardson was swinging...
...last fortnight when Shields unloosed his intemperate blast, finally had his comeuppance. And McGregor, who had also gained sympathy when he failed to get a singles berth on Australia's Davis Cup team, finally had his day. McGregor this week pulled a stunning upset by beating Doubles Teammate Sedgman, U.S. champion, 7-5, 12-10, 2-6, 6-2, for the Australian title...
...Gardnar Mulloy, challenged the losing U.S. team to a charity match. Several members of the five-man team denied knowledge of the challenge. But Mulloy stuck to it, explained: "The whole thing was based on the selection of Schroeder for the Cup team." ¶ In Australia, while Frank Sedgman's "wedding gift" fund (TIME, Jan. 14) swelled to $11,892, Aussie Davis Cup Captain Harry Hopman spoke out about "amateur" tennis in his Melbourne Herald column: "I don't think there is one player in the world's first ten who abides by the [international] amateur rules...
...virtue, the Daily Telegraph proclaimed on its front page, deserved more than its own reward. Melbourne's Sun and Adelaide's Advertiser heartily agreed. By week's end the extra reward reached $8,500, raised by the three newspapers as "a wedding gift fund for Frank Sedgman's fiancée," Miss Jean Spence...
...Sedgman taking a bribe that added up to Australia's premium on Davis Cup insurance? Under his country's lenient rules, no. To well-mannered British and U.S. tennis fathers, the "gift" was an internal Australian affair and no foreigner's business. U.S. Lawn Tennis Association President Russell B. Kingman washed his hands of it: "Judge Sedgman for yourself." Apparently feeling no pangs of conscience, practical Frank Sedgman said: "I propose to buy a home and use the rest for investments." Kicking in $112 for the unique dowry, jilted Promoter Humphrey wished Frank the "greatest possible success...