Word: finalize
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...seeded fifth (behind Australian Champion Frank Sedgman, Talbert, Drobny and South Africa's Eric Sturgess), the experts gave Patty little chance. But by midweek he had defeated a wobbly Billy Talbert again, then outplayed the No. 10 U.S. player, Vic Seixas, to win his way to the final against top-seeded Frank Sedgman...
...before the final, the reconditioned Patty went through a four-hour doubles match, longest in Wimbledon history (one set went to 31-29). Patty looked like a limp rag afterward, and for the singles the smart money was on wiry, 22-year-old Sedgman, whose austere training habits include calisthenics and jogging around Wimbledon Common. Patty declined an invitation to a party at a West End nightclub...
...case in point was 22-year-old, South Carolina-born Althea Gibson, three times national Negro champion, who last March became the first Negro to reach the final round of the U.S.L.T.A. indoor championships (TIME, April 3). On a recent lecture tour, wrote Alice Marble, more people had asked her about Althea's admission to Forest Hills than about "Gussie's panties." So she had investigated...
Moon-faced Bobby Locke is not a colorful golfer; he works away at his profession with the dull precision of a man punching rivets in an assembly line. In the early rounds of a tournament, few spectators follow him around. But when he shows up in the final round, Bobby Locke is apt to get the crowds at his heels. They like to watch a winner, and the rotund South African has been winning British tournaments with mass-production regularity...
Despite the disastrous fifth, Locke salvaged a 72 that day, two strokes behind Welshman Dai Rees. And during the final 36 holes, played the following day, Locke kept both his temper and his strokes well in hand. His morning round of 70 brought him to a three-way tie with Rees and Argentine Roberto de Vicenzo. His final 18-hole round was right off the assembly line for a 68, and a four-round total of 279-two strokes ahead of De Vicenzo, three ahead of Rees, four better than the 58-year record for the British Open...