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...Lawn Tennis Association. To make it official, the proper officials of the U.S.L.T.A. have fired Big Jake from his job as coach of the Junior Davis Cup squad, a training group that was originally his brain child. The new coach: Don Budge, another pro, who was U.S. Singles champ...
...once more on the center court of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, tuned up at last to the proper pitch for the Wimbledon championship. He had wasted no time getting to the final round, blasting his way past such dangerous competitors as last year's champ, Czechoslovakia's aging (33) Expatriate Jaroslav Drobny, and the U.S.'s Parisian Playboy Budge Patty. Across the net stood Denmark's Kurt Nielsen, an unseeded surprise who had knocked over Ken Rosewall and Italy's Nicolo Pietrangeli to get to the finals...
...reach the green. A nervy, soft, downhill putt after his pitch to the green was wasted. Fleck, playing carefully all the way, was on in two. He took no chances. He babied his ball across 15 ft. of green in two taps, and he was the new Open champ...
...gave Nova an even worse beating than he had received from Louis. "Nova is a spectacular bum [whose] challenge consisted of retreating in hot haste the entire fight," wrote Boston Record Columnist Dave Egan. Added the New York Daily Mirror's Dan Parker: "All Nova showed against the champ was timidity. The fight was . . . an utter stinker ... As to the 'cosmic punch,' Lou doesn't know how to spell. The 's' doesn't belong in the word...
...bribed a janitor with $2.50 to let him into an all-female meeting in Pasadena, where William Jennings Bryan was pouring out his oratorical silver. Before he cast his first vote. Goodie had heard Bryan a dozen times-as well as Woodrow Wilson, Hiram Johnson, William Howard Taft, Champ Clark and Theodore Roosevelt. Much of Goodie's political technique derives from his hooky-playing days with the great spellbinders. Says he: "Public speaking meant something in those days. Those men had to speak without microphones to huge crowds...