Word: tuneup
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Oklahoma's solemn Don McNeill, U. S. Intercollegiate champion: the Meadow Club tennis tournament, major tuneup for the National Singles championship; defeating (6-4, 6-3, 6-3) California's frivolous Frank Kovacs, who had drubbed U. S. Champion Bobby Riggs in the semifinals; at Southampton, L. I. After the conventional handshake, Clown Kovacs got McNeill to join him in a characteristically irreverent Kovacs pose...
Last week, while sportswriters moaned "We wuz robbed." the prizefight fraternity wondered what effect Joe Jacobs' passing would have. With Arturo Godoy and Tony Galento in line for another shot at Joe Louis' crown (Galento is scheduled to meet Max Baer in a tuneup at Jersey City May 28), it looked as if Galento might drop out of the picture. In his crepe-draped saloon, Two-Ton Tony blubbered: "I can't go on widout...