Word: tune-up
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Dates: during 1938-1938
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Among the spectators at Longwood was 20-year-old Robert Riggs, Los Angeles minister's son, who within two years has zoomed from nowhere to second ranking U. S. tennist. He had passed up the Newport tournament, last major tune-up before the U. S. championships, in order to scout the Australians. For cocky young Bobby Riggs, who has won 14 U. S. tournaments this year, was smarting under Don Budge's recent innuendo (that, if he were chosen for the Davis Cup team, he would probably lose both his singles matches...
This will be the fifteenth game played by Coach Samborski's Freshmen team, and it is one of the final tune-up encounters before the game with Yale. The Freshmen, led by Captain Fred Keyes, will be at full strength against the schoolboy nine...
...Yardling team won its fourth contest in seven starts in a final tune-up match before the Yale encounter next Saturday by trouncing the M.I.T. Freshmen 12 to 1 on Coop Field...
...Schmeling, 32-year-old German heavyweight contender: a technical knockout over obscure 24-year-old Steve Dudas of Edgewater, N. J., after flooring him seven times; in the fifth round of a scheduled 15-round boxing match, his last tune-up before meeting Joe Louis for the world championship in June; before 23,000 Nazi fight fans: at Hamburg, Germany...