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...best thing Minnesota had to offer was its goalie, Bob Moran, who stopped 42 shots Friday and 33 tonight. He was the only defense that the Gophers could rely on. Nate Corning, seen in Crimson nets for the first time by this observer, looked like the steadlest goalie the Crimson has had since the war. His stops totalied only 24 Friday and 22 tonight; but he made them when they counted. His only fault scemed to be an inability to hug the pipes as tightly as he should have on shots from the side. Two tonight went between his pads...
...Milwaukee, Gussie Moran over Pauline Betz Addie, 6-4, after nine straight tennis exhibition losses...
...Gussie Moran got top billing as the tennis pros opened their winter tour in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden last week; Jack Kramer, Pancho Segura and Pauline Betz Addie took what poster space was left. As a reflection of tennis ability this made no sense, but the pros knew what they were doing. Their box-office mixture is not tennis alone, but tennis with a brimming jigger of circus stuff...
...great surprise that in the week before the match, prancy Gussie Moran, seventh-ranking U.S. amateur last year, spent a good part of her time in press conferences where she was asked whether she would wear lace panties or a leopard-skin number. Meanwhile, her opponent, Pauline Betz Addie, put in a week of hard practice, polishing up the game that had made her (1942, '43, '44, '46) a four-time national champion...
...Margaret Osborne Du Pont, neither of whom has ever shown the verve of Pauline Betz or the grace of Alice Marble. Doris Hart, ranked third, has an outside chance of breaking up the Brough-Du Pont monopoly this year. No one expected as much of bouncing Gussie Moran, pressagent product of a tennis era in which mediocrity is often confused with talent...