Word: set
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...post, but not de Goltz. Half Dutch, half native, he knows that he has reached his peak, and glories in the power to flog, execute, ride herd on his three young white assistants, who fear him. When a new civil-affairs officer named Major Bluphocks arrives, the stage is set for a vicious contest of wills. He has never been up against a man like de Goltz, and in the intrigue that follows Bluphocks meets disaster, as does just about everyone else in the book...
Sweeping through with the loss of just one set in sixteen matches--seven of them unofficial--the varsity tennis team outclassed Army, 9 to 0, at Soldiers Field Saturday...
...rout when he took less then a half hour to dispose of Cadet lefthander Hank Fisher, 6-2, 6-0. Weld started fairly slowly, as he had against M.I.T.'s Raul Karman last Wednesday, allowing Fisher's errors to give him the opening games. But in the second set the Crimson captain was very sharp, and, with his service clicking beautifully, he ran through Fisher in short order...
Army took its only set at second singles, as Jim O'Connell, a strong player with a fine serve, lost to Bob Bowditch, 4-6, 6-0, 6-2. Bowditch, after a lot of difficulty with O'Connell's service in the first set, found his touch and overwhelmed the Cadet in the next two sets, although O'Connell made very few errors throughout the match...
...captain Albie Gordon who precipitated the Crimson onslaught. With the meet score at 9-9 after the mile and hammer throw results were in, Gordon, Dave Brahms, and Lee Barnes took the mark against Army's Dave Gray and Ron Salter in the critical 440 race. After Barnes had set the early pace, Gordon took the lead with 200 yards to go and held off Salter's challenge with a thundering stretch drive. Brahms caught Salter to take second, and from then on the Crimson could do little wrong...