Word: tennised
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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One thing about Tennists Tony Trabert and Vic Seixas-they always provide suspense. Nobody can ever be sure whether they will play great tennis or goof. Last week, in regaining the Davis Cup for the U.S. from Australia, they did both.
Said Vic: "I felt I had to win. I have never lost nine times in a row to anybody." Next day Seixas and Trabert, who are better as a doubles team than either is as a singles player, won the doubles, 6-2, 4-6, 6-2, 10-8, and...
Even a geometer could not calculate all the angles in squash-at least not quickly enough to make the shots. Squash is a game played on a walled, rectangular court (18½ ft. by 32 ft. in the U.S. game), and all four sides are playing surfaces. The ball is...
¶ U.S. Davis Cup tennis players, in the interzone final with Sweden at Brisbane, Australia, handily won all five matches (four singles, one doubles), earned the right to play Australia for the cup next week. In a remarkable singles match with Sven Davidson, young Ham Richardson beat the able Swede...
HOTELMAN CONRAD HILTON, who now has four hotels abuilding outside the U.S. (in Havana, Mexico City, Acapulco and Istanbul), will soon start work on a fifth in Rome. Hilton has just formed a joint company with his Italian backers, will put up a 400-room luxury hotel, with a shopping...