Word: winner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this other life, the world he travels through, never matters much to a tennisplayer. He doesn't really understand all its old money; the only part that touches him is its love of a winner. This world bothers for him, recognizes him, only as long as he wins, and he is made comfortable by its patronage. Winning, then, is the tennisplayers stake in an identity. Losers count for nothing...
...YEARS AGO, Jimmy Connors (20 year old winner of Longwood, 1973) was a winner in the making. Straight out of Bellevue, Ill. Connors had money, but he was not a rich boy. Because Connors needed to win. A rich boy is reared in the tradition of the gentleman sportsman--where it is gauche to want to win too badly, and where giving all to one sport at the exclusion of the others is missing out on the good life. He doesn't need to win because he is already there. But Connors was brought up under the pressures...
...clear that things can never again be as simple as they were that fall. Then the goals were only 100 yards distant, the rules and demands exacting and unwavering. But most important that fall we always won. It is easier to follow the rules when you are a winner...
...WINNER LOSE ALL: DR. COOK AND THE THEFT OF THE NORTH POLE...
Nevertheless, the Peary-Cook controversy smolders on, as dark and smelly as an Eskimo's blubber lamp. The Pearyites generally stand pat on the slushy record. Cook's boosters, like California Biographer Hugh Eames, author of Winner Lose All, tend to heap benefits where there is clearly doubt and portray their man as an unworldly underdog, victimized by the Establishment. Eames' assertion that Cook reached the North Pole on April 21, 1908, is not even borne out by Cook himself, who would not vouch for the accuracy of his instrument readings beyond a "reasonable certainty...