Word: wet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...playing captain and Australia's Frank Sedgman, Wimbledon and U.S. champion and generally considered the world's top amateur. The big match was rained out twice before it finally began this week. Then Sedgman, who relies heavily on his speed afoot, found the wet grass courts slippery going. He found Seixas' booming service and tantalizing drop shots even tougher to handle. Seixas won, 8-6, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4, and became the first U.S. player to win the Victorian Championship since Don Budge...
...completions in 164 tries for a total of 1099 yards, and eleven of the completions have gone for touchdowns. The statistics are accurate; Molloy is a fine passer who throws the ball where he wants to; against Princeton he completed 11 of 18 passes despite a soaking wet ball...
...Dripping wet and bleary-eyed, he started to walk to the town, when he met a group of natives, all eagerly running toward the beach. He asked one what had happened. The native signaled that the French meterologist on the island had received a radio message saying that a New Zealand yacht, the Miru, had founded in a hurricane off Rapa. The French government announced that it would take one-half of any salvage from the Miru, and the island's natives would get the other half. That, he said, was why everyone was going to the beach; wreckage...
...Yale passing attack was truly excellent. Eddie Molloy, despite a soaking wet ball, completed 11 out of 18 tosses. Ed Woodsum, six foot two inch end, while not outstandingly ast, is an incredibly clever who didn't drop a pass all afternoon. By the end of the first period Molloy was using Woodsum as a decoy and passing to halfback Frank Smith, who also onto the ball with amazing determination...
...Wet Ball...