Word: talbert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Newport, R.I., last week, in the Casino Invitation tournament, the old familiar faces went through their old familiar paces in a last unofficial singles warmup before Forest Hills. This week the Davis Cup committee, to nobody's surprise, picked Veterans Ted Schroeder, Gardnar Mulloy, Frank Parker and Billy Talbert to represent the U.S. against Australia. But the real news at Newport was made by youngsters whom the committee did not consider ripe enough for the team...
...issue of it if it weren't. At Manhattan's Seventh Regiment Armory last week, he played and won his first round match (6-4, 6-2) in the National Indoor Tennis Championship. Even though he was soundly beaten (6-1, 6-1) by top-seeded Billy Talbert in the second round, Dr. Weir felt that he had won a victory. For the first time in history, a Negro had played in a U.S. Lawn Tennis Association-sponsored national championship...
...hold a number twelve ranking in National Junior competition before the war, and travelled to Florida last winter to participate in the Sugar Bowl tournament. In 1942 he reached the quarter finals of this tournament before bowing to Billy Talbert in extra sets...
...Wood's finesse with power and control, won in three hard-fought sets, 6-3, 6-4. 6-4. In the finals, two days later, he faced Bobby Falkenburg (brother of Jinx), whose tremendous first serve and smashing net game had been too much for Davis Cupper Billy Talbert. Kramer's return of service made the big serve look less sizeable. As effortlessly as if he were playing table tennis, Kramer kept ramming Falkenburg's cannonball right back up the cannon, and walked away with the match, 6-1, 6-2, 6-2. Throughout the tournament, Kramer...
...doubles r Kramer and Falkenburg, in a five-set final over Talbert and Wood's old Davis Cup running mate, Francis X. Shields...