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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pacemakers and Corsets. In addition to their long experience, Super-Seniors bring to the court a variety of infirmities. Travis Smith, who enters 15 to 18 tournaments a year, totes to each event a set of electrocardiograms for the benefit of local doctors-should their assistance be needed. His only real problem since a heart attack 15 years ago arose when his first implanted pacemaker proved inadequate for his vigorous regimen. Pacemaker No. 2, he says, works just fine. When Chaffee plays, he wears a steel-ribbed corset to support his back; he has a displaced vertebra...
...still won, 6-0, 6-0, beating Sam Shore, 71. Bitsy Grant, 66, a member of the U.S. Davis Cup team in the mid-1930s, has had cataract operations on both eyes, and wears sunglasses and a sun visor on the court. But none of the ailments of the Super-Seniors is as celebrated as that of L. Roe Campbell, 77, secretary-treasurer of the organization, who three years ago faced surgery to lock his right wrist in place. Undaunted, Campbell arrived at the hospital on the day of the operation carrying a tennis racquet. Instructing the surgeon to watch...
Final Match. Super-Seniors were saddened this season when two nationally ranked players in the 70s category. A.L. ("Red") Enloe and Steve Gary, died on the court of heart attacks while competing in the Florida winter circuit. Their deaths led the U.S. Tennis Association to issue a ruling last month limiting Super-Senior players 65 and over to one singles and one doubles match a day during a national tournament. To a man, Super-Senior players say the heart attacks and strokes that occur occasionally on the courts would probably have happened anyway-at a desk or even...
...Though Super-Seniors have as intense an aversion to losing as today's well-paid professionals, they make their own line calls, rarely dispute a referee's ruling and never indulge in Nastase-like tantrums. That gentlemanly attitude makes life easier for Alphonso Smith, who will supervise the U.S. Clay Court Championships for 70s, 75s and 80s this September in Charlottesville, Va. "But the real reason I like the Super-Seniors," he says with tongue tucked firmly in cheek, "is that you don't have to worry about getting harassed by the parents...
...radar-emission detector. Mounted on a dashboard, it flashes a light and then sounds a high-pitched beep when the vehicle approaches a radar trap. "This is the fastest-growing area of consumer electronics," says Cy Robinson of a Richardson, Texas, firm called Autotronics that sells "Snoopers" ($89.95) and "Super Snoopers" ($149.95). Super Snooper claims to be able to sniff out "over-the-hill and around-the-corner detection...