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Kramer's "Big Game." Just as the model T had to come before the streamlined 1947 Ford, previous California champions had to blaze the trail. First there was the California Comet, Maurice McLoughlin, whose weapons were lethal but lopsided: a smashing serve and volley. Next in the California line came Little Bill Johnston with the big forehand, then Ellsworth Vines with a bullet serve and an even more devastating forehand. After that was Budge, who had an all-court game and an incomparable backhand. Jake Kramer has something from all these predecessors; perhaps the nearest likeness is to call...
Besides baseball and softball, which are being organized into league competition. Summer Term students may choose their activities from among singles, crew, conditioning and special exercise classes, swimming, tennis, volley ball, and rehabilitation under...
Dajo gets angry at people who exaggerate: "In Holland, they said the Germans sent a volley of machine-gun fire through my body in a concentration camp. I've never been in a camp...
Director Bill Bingham and his assistants have organized a full program of sports which includes intramural softball and baseball, tennis, rowing, volley ball, and swimming. In addition, depending on the demand, an informal "all-star" nine will be hand-picked by intramural director Dolph Samborski from the various House teams. This squad will take on whatever local collegiate competition is available...
...most lavish candidate's reception was staged by Mrs. Roscoe C. O'Byrne of Brookville, Ind., who plied the delegates with sandwiches, cake, ice cream, deviled eggs and a compote initialed D.A.R. in green confectioner's sugar. Wary of mechanical voting machines, which spewed out a volley of blanks at the last election three years ago, the Daughters marked their ballots by hand, sat up till 3:25 to cheer sleepily for Mrs. O'Byrne, who had nosed out Mrs. Stanley T. Manlove of Newburgh, N.Y. by 55 votes...