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It helped if the good name was accompanied by a serve that sprayed aces and by ground strokes that delivered tennis balls with laser-like precision deep into his opponent's backhand. In fact, his game was the antithesis of his public persona. It was the fire that flowed out...
Tantrums took over tennis after that. Connors, John McEnroe and others transformed the courts into arenas where invective upstaged the delicacy of a drop shot, where insulting the umpire became more important than applauding an opponent's cross-court backhand. Ashe would have none of it. The game, like life...
"He didn't take it lying down, did he? He was out there doing things, taking care of business to the end," said Jimmy Connors, who lost to Ashe in the 1975 Wimbledon final.
"If anybody would say to go ahead and play and go give them a show, it would be him," Connors said. "That's what he did, he never sat still. He had a style and a form all his own. He didn't copy anyone's game. He made his...
Marshall also shrugged off guard criticisms that her office is incapable of performing an adequate investigation of the unit. An earlier investigation--performed last spring by then-General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54--failed to interview guards, and University Attorney Frank J. Connors this fall accused security guards of using charges...