Word: wimbledon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Margaret Osborne, 1947 Wimbledon champion and the world's ranking amateur, Jean Bostock got much more than the single point she had hoped for. With a tenacious retrieving game, she took the second set, lost the third and deciding one, only when Miss Osborne got her forecourt game going full blast. With an earnest manner and a well-displayed figure, Mrs. Bostock succeeded in making the Forest Hills crowd unmistakably pro-British...
...other 127 contestants who entered Wimbledon's All-England men's singles might as well have stayed home. There apparently was just no tennis amateur anywhere in the world who could give California's 25-year-old Jack Kramer a workout. Before leaving the U.S., Kramer had taken the precaution of having lamp treatments for a gimpy "tennis elbow" and last week was in top trim...
...Wimbledon, besides winning the singles, Kramer teamed with Hollywood's Bob Falkenburg to win the men's doubles. Both the women's singles and doubles (with Queen Mary and Prime Minister Attlee watching in the stands) were all-American finals too. Singles winner: San Francisco's Margaret Osborne, over Miami's Doris Hart, 6-2, 6-4. In the doubles, Doris Hart and Mrs. Patricia Canning Todd beat the defending champions, Miss Osborne and Louise Brough...
...American finals at Wimbledon (see above) were just one more indication that England's guests this summer were making themselves right at home. To a country which prides itself on taking its games more seriously than its battles, the situation was beginning to look a bit too one-sided. The London Evening Standard's Columnist Hylton Cleaver seriously suggested last week that all foreigners, including horses, be barred from British sport for two years so that the home product might recover its lost confidence. The Observer's Editor Ivor Brown was more philosophical about...
...Pancho, even though he went on to lose to the best amateur in the U.S., Davis Cupper Jack Kramer. Pancho aced Kramer six times, won a set before bowing out, 6-2, 6-4, 3-6, 6-3. Bad Boy Pancho might yet get to Forest Hills and Wimbledon. He is only 19 and there is plenty of time...