Word: tennised
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nicholas S. Ludington Jr. upset Dwight F. Davis III in the finals of the University Court Tennis Tournament this week, 6-4, 6-1. The tournament was held at the Boston Racquet and Tennis Club where Ludington, the winner of the Tuxedo Park Tournament earlier this year, was top seeded...
Bill Cranston, captain of the Yale tennis team, entered his fifty-third day of unconsciousness at Grace Hospital, New Haven, today. He was injured in an automobile accident on Jan.8.
During the evening Pancho bounced his racquet on the floor, hit and kicked the ball into the stands, indignantly had the net measured, berated the ballboys, and, incidentally, dropped an exciting tennis match to Tony Trabert, 6-3, 9-7.
The match at the Boston Garden Saturday night was the twenty-second in a series of one hundred which will carry Jack Kramer's troupe to Europe for exhibitions before the most enthusiastic tennis fans in the world. The winner of the 100 match series receives a bonus $25,000...
Trabert, as well-built as any halfback, was the better tennis player Saturday night, but Gonzales was undeniably the center of attention. He lurked about the court like a great cat, did not mile once in the singles, and generally looked positively menacing.