Word: sid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...team, which swept through the entire season undefeated. Don Dell and Gene Scott, the finalists in last year's New England tournament, have graduated, as have Giff Hopkins, Rick Wallace and Sunny Howe. Mike Neely has dropped out of school, and--to top coach John Skillman's woes--Sid Wood and captain-elect Craig Joyner were killed in a tragic automobile accident just before the current season started...
...been the finest father-and-son team of all time." In the winter of 1957, the Woods won the quarter-finals of the men's doubles at the national indoors by beating Irv Dorfman and Kurt Nielsen. That was a big one. "I saw during that match that Sid had a chance some day of becoming an international player," says the father. "I was jabbering away at him during the match, and he finally said, 'Shut up, Dad. I think I get the message.' I shut...
...Sidney III never developed the father's obsession for the game. He was too interested in too many other things -hockey, baseball and an elaborate game of stickball he invented and played with all his father's zest. Two years ago, young Sid left Yale to spend the winter with his father in New York. "He was worried about his future in tennis because of some trouble he was having with his back," says the father. "His marks were down. And some of his depression came from his split home-his mother and I were divorced...
...more relaxed than his father, Sid was a likable, lanky (6 ft. 1 in., 165 lbs.) kid who was just beginning to find him self when he went back to Yale in the fall of 1959. His marks improved, his back mended, and his big serve began dropping in. And though Sid was still unranked nationally, Don Budge says: "He was turning into a fine player...
...Sid died without any frustrations, even in tennis," says his father. "I made a lot of friends and a lot of enemies. Sid only seemed to have made friends...