Word: slamming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...half century of 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...
...this year, brilliant pitching and fabulous hitting. We've already had four no-hitters, a 20-game winner, and 209 strikeouts by a pitcher, who hasn't worked since July 17. We've had Floyd Robinson's six-for-six, grand-slam homeruns in a single inning by Bob Allison and Harmon Killebrew. Tommy Davis's 112 RBI, and Stan Musial's consistently great hitting...
...Wimbledon's famed center court last week he needed only 53 min. to crush his unseeded countryman Martin Mulligan, 6-2, 6-2, 6-1, for his third national championship of the year. Only the U.S. championship at Forest Hills in September stands between Laver and a "grand slam" of amateur tennis' four top tournaments, a feat accomplished only once before, in 1938, by the U.S.'s Don Budge...
...Australia's No. 1-seeded Margaret Smith, a big girl with a big game, virtually undefeated in the past ten months, winner of the Australian, French and Italian titles, a 4-5 favorite to win at Wimbledon, go on to take the U.S. title, and complete a grand slam of women's tennis...
...Unconscious for 13 days, Nichols was hospitalized for 96 with a broken pelvis, a back injury, a concussion and assorted internal injuries. He recovered completely, won an athletic scholarship to Texas A. & M., turned pro in 1959. Husky (6 ft. 2 in.. 195 Ibs.) and handsome, Nichols can slam a drive as far as Nicklaus, though not with the same arrow accuracy: he once won a driving contest with measured drives of 347, 352 and 367 yds. So far this year, Nichols has earned $26.475, won two tournaments-including a play-off victory over Nicklaus in the Houston Classic...