Word: wimbledon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Singles championships, but now he was up against his fellow countryman Lew Hoad. There was too much at stake for Lew to let this one get away. Victory would make him the only man besides Don Budge to make a grand slam of the biggest titles in tennis-Wimbledon, plus the French, Australian and U.S. championships. A $100,000 pro contract would be his for the asking...
Married. Gertrude Augusta ("Gorgeous Gussie") Moran, 32, high-stepping onetime tennis star (women's indoor singles champion, 1949) who raised eyebrows and lowered camera angles by playing at Wimbledon in lace panties; and Thomas Joseph Corbally, 35, industrial-design firm vice president; in New York City...
...Vastly surprised to find himself leading Wimbledon Champion Lew Hoad in the semi-finals of England's Midland Counties tennis championship, a 19-year-old Briton named Michael Davies was moved to try an ingenious bit of gamesmanship; he walked around the net to say that he was defaulting. Prevailed upon to change his mind, Davies went back to whip the startled Aussie, 6-3, 4-6, 6-4. After that Davies had nothing left. In the finals he lost to South Africa's Trevor Fancutt...
...Backyard. The men finalists managed to provide more suspense. Big blond Lew Hoad, 21, who houses cat-quick grace in the frame of a fullback, was out to prove that this is his year. Already holder of the Australian and French championships, Lew wanted the Wimbledon title badly. It and a victory...
...While Vic ungreixously stopped his ears to drown out the cheers for the victor, Rosewall walked off to wait for his Sydney neighbor and tennis mate to overpower Rhodes Scholar Ham Richardson of Westfield, N.J., 3-6, 6-4, 6-2, 6-4, and assure Wimbledon's first all-Australian final ever...