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...tradition was begun in 1938 by A. S. Gisbert, a Kuala Lumpur-based British expat. Inspired by paper chase clubs he had first seen in action while stationed in Malacca, Gisbert persuaded his colleagues to "hunt" with him, on foot rather than horseback. Gisbert, as the hare, would mark long, meandering trails through the brush with chalk arrows and piles of flour. The hounds or "harriers," would set off soon after, in hopes of "capturing" the hare before he finished the trail. The reward at the end of the run, whether or not the hare was caught, was cold beer...
They were lucky to leave with their sneakers. In the first singles match, Australia's lanky Fred Stolle outlasted Santana in a three-hour marathon 10-12, 3-6, 6-1, 6-4, 7-5. Then Roy Emerson effortlessly disposed of Juan Gisbert 6-3, 6-2, 6-2. That gave the Aussies a 2-0 lead in the best-of-five series. At that point Captain Harry Hopman decided to give his first team a rest. For the next day's doubles, he called on a pair of youngsters-John Newcombe, 21, and Tony Roche...
...only real doubt about Spain's chances centered on Juan Gisbert, a young (22) Barcelona law student and tennis unknown, whose one claim to fame was a victory over Teammate Santana in a minor tournament last spring. Gisbert wiped out that doubt by polishing U.S.'s No. 1 player, Dennis Ralston, in last week's first match−breaking Ralston's service seven times in a row for a 3-6, 8-6, 6-1, 6-3 victory. Ralston took his defeat with typically bad grace, complaining, among other things, about the court, the heat...
...History of Scotland from the Earliest Times to the Present Century," by John Mackintosh L. L. D.; "The Influence of Sea Power upon History," by A. T. Mahan; Hippolyte Bernheim's "Treatise on the Nature and Uses of Hypnotism"; "Electric Transmission of Energy"; a practical hand-book, by Gisbert Knapp; "Abraham Lincoln's Pen and Voice," being a complete compilation of his letters, civil, political and military; also his public addresses, messages to Congress, inaugurals and others; "The Diseases of the Will," by Theodule Ribot, and "The Psychology of Attention," by the some author and Rullof Wolf's "Handbuch...