Word: tournament
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...would represent the U.S. in the Davis Cup matches? Now that Jake Kramer had turned pro, the first rank of U.S. amateur tennis was a pretty lackluster lot. At Newport, R.I., last week, in the Casino Invitation tournament, the old familiar faces went through their old familiar paces in a last unofficial singles warmup before Forest Hills. This week the Davis Cup committee, to nobody's surprise, picked Veterans Ted Schroeder, Gardnar Mulloy, Frank Parker and Billy Talbert to represent the U.S. against Australia. But the real news at Newport was made by youngsters whom the committee...
Having taken in $25,297.50 in prize money in seven months of tournament play, Hogan slipped away for a long rest and a series of golf shorts in Hollywood, before Reno's September Invitational. The other pros, who needed the money, headed for Chicago's brassy Tarn O'Shanter tournaments, which pay out the biggest prize money ($55,300) in golf. Oliver was bound there "to get some more cookies for my two girls and my boy . . . and to get away from Hogan...
...qualifying round he shot two 69s, to lead the field. The skeptics considered it a fluke. Some crack golfers had struggled in behind him. From the U.S. had come 13 talented men, including former Open Champion Lawson Little and Claude Harmon (winner of the recent Masters' Tournament...
...finals of the tournament, Fuller, last year's wrestling captain, took a split decision from Bob Girand, a man he knocked out last fall in an amateur bout. He gained his advantage in the second and third rounds after fighting cautiously for the first two minutes. In the semifinals he won a unanimous decision over Ed Moylan, a former Navy fighter...
...manners became fashionable in big-time tennis after World War I. Suzanne Lenglen and Big Bill Tilden set the style -and the pace. One day on the French Riviera, so the story goes, a hot-tempered Austrian almost outdid everybody when he won a tournament; openly sneering at the tiny silver trophy that was presented to him, he set it down in midcourt and squashed it flat with a roller. Last week, in Paris, tomboyish Patricia Canning Todd, No. 4 among U.S. women players, did her bit to keep the tradition alive...