Word: tigers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...battle of speedsters, Captain Dave Benjamin plays Princeton Captain Keith Jennings in the first singles match. Benjamin is a steady player who relies on a controlled game from the backcourt, while Jennings varies a baseline game with his aggressive net play. The Tiger senior, winner of the Eastern singles tournament last Fall, will be favored today against his old rival...
Jose Gonzales will play Sam Bussey, a two-handed top-spin player, in the fifth match. Gonzales, who has a strong net game and a good overhead, bowed to Bussey in the number three freshman match last year, 6-3, 6-3. Dick Appleby faces Tiger Clint Belser in the crucial sixth match, which looks like a toss...
...Show program is still alliterative: "Extraordinary Equine Exhibition! Res-inback Riders and Revelers! Trilogy of Teeterboard Terrors!" And the circus' biggest acts are still those with negative benefits: a Siberian tiger named King rides around on a horse named Tiger and does NOT eat him; a Mexican acrobat does a triple somersault-the one that gave Burt Lancaster all that trouble in Trapeze-and does NOT fall: Helena Rassy's pastel-dyed pigeons are released from the balcony and flutter down to her and NOT into the crowd...
Griffith, who also holds the welter-weight crown, was ten pounds lighter and nine years younger, and Tiger simply could not stay with the faster man. Although Tiger jolted Griffith more than once, he failed to follow up his punches...
...champion won the fight in the eighth, ninth, and tenth, as he handed Tiger the first flooring of his career. The other twelve rounds were too cautious for the fans, and only Griffith's vociferous mother maintained an enthusiastic chatter throughout...