Word: tennised
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Maybe his take from pro tennis is falling off; maybe he was just feeling ornery.
Whatever the reason, Jack Kramer, former U.S. amateur champion (1946-47), last week remembered out loud that he had earned a pretty penny playing even before he turned pro. Everybody knows that "amateur" tennis-tournament travelers get fat under-the-table fees, wrote Big Jake in This Week magazine-everybody...
Kramer's suggestions for cleaning up the game are straightforward enough: get the payoff above the table. Hold open tournaments and let both amateurs and pros compete for prize money, "as clean and candid a reward as there is." In Wiesbaden, Germany last week, where this year's...
Werner F. Genieser '56 of Philadelphia and Kirkland House will manage the varsity tennis team next year, Charles L, Field '55, this season's manager, announced yesterday. Genieser will also manage the squash team for 1955-56.
The sophomore competition was won by John F. Rosen '57 of New York City and Adams House. He was elected assistant manager and will succeed Genieser as tennis manager his senior year.