Word: hocking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sweltering 96° as the field of eleven jogged to the post. Vulcan's Forge, the co-favorite, had taken a beating during a violent storm on his plane trip from the East; he had been thrown to the floor, and had banged his hock and thigh. When the race began, he got lost in the shuffle and was not heard from again...
...Idraetshuset gymnastic hall, Danes and their guests watched in astonishment as a blond Californian ran the badminton trunks off Malaya's great Ooi Teik Hock in the final of the Copenhagen Open. Pasadena-born Dr. Dave Freeman, 28, had not lost a singles match in ten years, but the Europeans had considered most of his victories minor-league stuff, scored against so-so U.S. opposition. In Copenhagen, he was playing in badminton's big league...
...college-boy manners camouflage what friendly U.S. badminton rivals call a "mean streak inside." In the early stages of a match, he sometimes rejects a wide-open chance for a kill, so that he can soften up his opponent by running him to death. Against Ooi Teik Hock, whose forte was also patience and consistency, Dave Freeman concentrated on outlasting his opponent. He won the first set, 15-11, lost the second...
...dead on the base line that opponents frequently let it drop thinking it will be outside-and it almost never is. The score in the third set crept to 15-all. After winning one point, Freeman put what remaining strength he had left into a final smash. Ooi Teik Hock went down...
Last winter, in Britain for further study in neurology, Freeman got his first crack at Ooi Teik Hock in the Thomas Cup matches (badminton's equivalent of the Davis Cup). He beat the champ in what many a badminton fan thought to be a fluke win. Last week, after proving it was no fluke, Dave Freeman made an announcement: he was through with big-league tournament badminton. Henceforth he would play only...