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Serving at 4-5 in the crucial third set, McEnroe fell behind 15-30. Losing the next point would make a break more than likely, and he would be down two sets to one. He hit a volley long; the linesman missed it, but the umpire called it out. 15-40 and double set point. Once again those evil officials were out to get Little Johnnie...
...disputed a linesman's calls, unleashed grimaces, tossed racquets or bashed balls. "Iceborg" they called him. In an era when tennis was turning from a game of gentlefolk to a showcase for the antics of ill-mannered Nastases, petulant Connorses and adolescent McEnroes, Borg seemed right out of Boy's Life?Goody Twoshoes with a tennis racquet...
...PHILADELPHIA vs. NEW YORK RANGERS: The Flyers boast a stable of reliable veterans, including Clarke and MacLeish, and a host of young stars such as Brain Propp and Ken Linesman. But the Rangers crunched Philly in five last season, and with suave Swedes Hedberg and Nilsson, John Davidson between the pipes, and Espo still floating in front of the net, they should pose a threat. Flyers in seven...
...this-world purses, and country-club courtliness has been supplanted by locker-room epithets. With $12 million at stake this year on the men's tournament circuit and another $5 million up for grabs on the women's tour, a bad call by a linesman is worth money-not to mention a few choice words. However offensive the behavior of the modern mercenaries, other, more serious problems confronted the sport as it moved into its new National Tennis Center on the grounds of the 1939 and 1964 New York World's Fairs...
Nastase, currently under a 90-day ban for his loathsome court behavior, threw the finals of the 1975 Canadian Open Championships after a linesman's call went against him in the first set. Nastase sleepwalked through the final sets, winning but one game, and was fined $6,000 for "not using his best efforts." But in other sports-remember baseball's Black Sox?-he might well have been banned for life for throwing a game...