Word: tennised
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The orange mammoths deposited their cargo at the Essex County Club shortly after 10 a.m., and the Class straggled for the various available activities. Sitting and talking took first preference, although a few stalwarts managed to find their way onto the 12 tennis courts. Still others did battle 'mid the...
On the main tennis court, a large group of spectators watched an exhibition doubles match which featured Mrs. Midge Buck, one of the top women players in New England. The match was only occasionally interrupted by balls flying in from the courts of less proficient tennis enthusiasts.
¶ After eating the dust of John Landy and Jim Bailey while those two Aussies ran better-than-four-minute miles last month, Ireland's Ron Delany developed a taste for speed himself. Carefully pacing himself on the fast track at Compton, Calif., the Villanova sophomore kicked past Denmark...
Merely getting to Paris was a signal achievement for Althea Gibson. She is a Negro, and she entered the aristocratic world of international tennis by the back door. Althea sneaked up on the game by playing paddle tennis on the streets of Harlem. She was 14 when she so impressed...
The Register was not the only paper that, prompted by the desegregation story, investigated discrimination in its own backyard. The New York Post devoted twelve articles to the subject; the New York Times ran four solid stories on Negroes in New York and other Northern cities; the Chicago Tribune presented...