Word: schroeder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heavy favorite, Ted Schroeder of California had no reason to be jittery, but as usual he was. As he took the court for the Wimbledon singles finals last week, he nodded awkwardly toward the royal box, where Queen Mary sat watching, instead of bending in the customary bow. Then Schroeder devoted his full attention to stocky, left-handed Jaroslav Drobny of Czechoslovakia across...
...Badminton. Since a Japanese American introduced him to badminton 14 years ago, Dave Freeman has been a talented athletic radical. After winning the National Junior Tennis Championship at 17 (he beat Ted Schroeder and Jake Kramer consistently in those days), he gave up big-time tennis because practicing bored him. Although he was besieged with athletic scholarships, he paid his own way to attend Pomona College, then went on to Harvard Medical School. Beginning in 1939, playing when the mood suited him and following no training rules, he was Mr. Badminton...
...Pierian Sodality of 1808 in presenting Schroeder and Kirkpatrick again a year after their last concert in Sanders Theater...
...really the best U.S. amateur? In second place, the U.S.L.T.A. put 27-year-old Ted Schroeder, who has made himself unpopular with the officials by boycotting the national singles for the past six years. Yet he was the star of the victorious Davis Cup team. And soon after Pancho put on his new crown, Old-timer Schroeder beat him twice...
Next day, Schroeder met wooden-faced Frank Parker in the finals. Parker was leading at the end of the third set, 6-4, 9-7; 5-7 when he gave up, complaining of blisters on both feet. Parker's defaulting gave Schroeder the championship...