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Dates: during 1950-1950
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First Meeting. McGregor had never seen Schroeder play, but he was impressed with his record in Davis Cup singles: seven straight victories over Australia. At 29, Ted Schroeder, the U.S. mainstay, was admittedly past his peak. Uncoiling a booming serve, Ken won the first game with the loss of only one point. Barging up to the net with racehorse strides, playing the position with the adroitness of a Vincent Richards, McGregor kept Schroeder constantly off balance...
...nearly always windy there, just like St. Andrews, Scotland, where Frank won the British Amateur Championship this year (TIME, June 5). Minneapolis favors a man who can hit walloping tee shots the way Frank does; on one occasion, in an early round match, he boomed his drive past the pin on the 333-yd. 14th...
...past four months, two horses have stood out among the three-year-olds of 1950. Many horsemen insist that the Kentucky Derby and Belmont winner, Middleground, rates the edge. But Christopher Chenery's strapping Preakness winner, Hill Prince, probably has as many admirers...
Radio's four major networks were beginning to take serious notice last week of a bustling new rival. Sparked by energetic, moonfaced President Gordon McLendon, Liberty Broadcasting System has grown in the past three years from one station in Texas to 240 in 34 states by concentrating on a single specialty: bringing broadcasts of major-league baseball games to the vast audience beyond the reach of stations in the major-league cities...
...hold his audience with Ted Husing's broadcasts of Army football games. For hours when there are no sports to broadcast, Liberty has already started a musical giveaway show and a series called Great Days in Sport, in which McLendon will re-create such highlights of the past as the Demp-sey-Firpo fight and the spectacular games of Notre Dame's Four Horsemen...