Word: stadiumitis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week, Big Jake will walk confidently into the big, horseshoe stadium at Forest Hills to give Australia's Davis Cuppers another lesson. In his unemphatic way, he calls his style of play the "big game." It combines all the game's attacking strokes into a smooth offense, geared to his none-too-rugged...
...only time he ever made a public appearance was last year, when, at the urging of a friend, he gave the Cleveland Heights High School $100,000 for a stadium. The friend wrote him a speech for the presentation, but when it came time to deliver it Hosford merely mumbled: "I've decided to give you a hundred thousand," and sat down...
...H.A.A. sent out 130 invitations but only 75 responded that they would be here for pre-registration training. The men will live in their regular College rooms and eat together in the Business School's Cowie Hall, opposite the Stadium...
...blistering heat, she rehearsed for six hours with the Montreal Festival Opera Company in McGill University's Molson stadium. The next day, she had hurried costume fittings, finished the preparations with a steak dinner. That night she gave a performance that made Montrealers forget the heat. Wrote the Montreal Gazette's Critic Thomas Archer: "Miss Resnik did a magnificent piece of work, considering that she had to substitute at the last moment. But an honest and accomplished artist can do just that...
Family Affair. Ailing Babe Ruth himself, 15 years a Yankee player, has become a Giant fan-partly because he likes to see home runs, partly (he explains) because the Polo Grounds are closer than Yankee Stadium to his apartment on Manhattan's Riverside Drive. Ruth doubts that Mize or anybody else will break his record; but if somebody has to break it, he hopes that big Jawn will be the man. Mize is Mrs. Ruth's second cousin, and the Babe would like to keep the record in the family...