Word: vic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Davis Cupper Ted Schroeder, 30, the Pacific Coast tennis championship; in Berkeley, Calif. Schroeder, still showing some of the slashing form that has won him six of eight Davis Cup matches, whipped Philadelphia's Vic Seixas, 6-4, 6-4, 6-2, in the final. U.S. Davis Cup hopes received an expected blow when 20-year-old Tony Trabert, national clay court champion, was forced to default a doubles match and report for duty with the Navy. ¶The University of Texas football team, eleventh in the pre-season rankings, over seventh-ranked Kentucky, 7-6; in Austin. Other...
...experienced line. Every starter is a letterman with the exception of 200-pound sophomore tackle Mike Cooney, a strongman who teams perfectly with the other tackle, "Jack the Giant" Feltch, a frail 230-pounder. Behind these, the Crusaders have three letter-winners, including such familiar and effective operators as Vic Rimkus and Tony Staryzinski...
...tennis gallery since 1946 was primed for white-hot competition. One bracket pitted Australian Frank Sedgman against Art Larsen, the flashy, unpredictable U.S. champ; the other match paired husky Dick Savitt, who had earned his No. 1 seeded position by knocking off the Australian and Wimbledon titles, against Vic Seixas, flashing the best play of his five-year career...
Next day Sedgman warmed up for a game or two, tried Seixas out, then cut loose with a well-rounded attack that collapsed Vic's defense and rolled him up, 6-4, 6-1, 6-1, in 48 minutes, one less than for Larsen. Said Sedgman, with massive understatement: "I've been playing pretty well in this tournament...
Died. Constant Lambert, 45, British composer, conductor, author; of diabetes; in London. At 20, he wrote a score for Romeo and Juliet (premiered by the Ballet Russe in 1926), soon began to mix conducting with composing, joined the Vic-Wells (later Sadler's Wells Ballet) Company as musical director. In later years he became a conductor for the BBC, and a prolific record maker. In Music Ho! (subtitled "A Study of Music in Decline") he took a gloomy view of most modern music, blasted Stravinsky, Hindemith and Schoenberg and derided "musical snobs" who failed to realize that Duke Ellington...