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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the Senate crime committee last week, veteran (49) Chicago Daily Newsman Ed Lahey got a hot tip. The July payroll of the Chicago Downs Race Track Association, furnished under subpoena, disclosed a string of names remarkably like those of certain Illinois legislators. Lahey, well knowing that the race track's harness races had been legalized by a special bill which the 1949 legislature approved unanimously, relayed his tip to the city desk in Chicago...
...endless gossip of the lockerroom, where the players dissect their matches with the fanaticism of shot-by-shot golfers-and remember the precise scores of each match for years-several theories are advanced on just how to beat Savitt. Bill Talbert, 32-year-old Davis Cup veteran and still a quick man on his feet (for three sets), says: "Make him run." Talbert's pal and protégé Tony Trabert, the 20-year-old sensation of the summer circuit, thinks the answer is: "Hit 'em harder." Gardnar Mulloy, a canny old hand at 37, says...
...three ensuing months in Australia gave him a fine postgraduate course. In the Australian championship, after beating wily Veteran John Bromwich in the quarterfinals, Savitt faced two-time Champion Sedgman in the semi-final bracket. The match went to five sets, and in the fifth, Sedgman spurted to a 4-2 lead. Savitt, always tense when he's ahead, simply relaxed and began hitting winners, won four straight games and the match. In the final, against rangy Ken McGregor, "I felt that nothing could stop me." McGregor couldn't. Dick won handily...
...European campaigning ("minor league stuff"), Savitt had only a so-so record, actually lost six of seven matches (on clay) to Jaroslav Drobny, ex-Czech Davis Cup veteran. The losses did little to shake Dick's new-found faith in his ability to win, but they did create a jinx. Drobny beat him again in the quarter-finals of the French championships, a tournament that Savitt really wanted to win. He began to fret, decided he was over-tennised, and practically stopped playing for the whole month before Wimbledon...
Died. Major Samuel Woodfill, 58, much-decorated U.S. veteran of World War I* and the regular Army's answer to drafted Alvin York; of a heart attack; in Vevay, Ind. On Oct. 12, 1918, during the Meuse-Argonne offensive, he charged a German strong point, singlehandedly killed 19 enemy machine gunners (shot 17, pickaxed two after his pistol jammed), so earned his Medal of Honor and a ringing tribute from General Pershing: "Here is America's greatest doughboy...