Word: richardson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Milton stadium, and it seemed the U.S. Davis Cup team would need plenty of it. Australia's Mai Anderson and Ashley Cooper were 10-to-1 favorites in what shaped up as the most lopsided cup challenge in years. The U.S. team had been racked by dissension. Ham Richardson, the U.S. top-ranked player, was dropped by nonplaying Captain Perry Jones as a singles player on the ground that his diabetic condition made him unfit to handle the workload, complained bitterly and publicly that he had been treated shabbily. Even U.S. Pro Promoter (and part-time team coach) Jack...
...astonished eyes of 18,000 Australian partisans, Olmedo charged repeatedly for killing volleys, managed an upset victory 8-6, 2-6, 9-7, 8-6. Then Barry MacKay lost as expected to Australia's Cooper to tie the match score. But next day Olmedo teamed with Ham Richardson in the doubles against Anderson and Neale Fraser. The U.S. pair promptly lost the first two sets, had to rally desperately to win the third 16-14. In the break before the fourth set, Pro Champion Pancho Gonzales rushed to the dressing room, gave Olmedo and Richardson some sound counsel. Eraser...
...seniors elected George L. Damoose, of Kirkland House and Grand Rapids, Mich.; D. Dwight Dogherty, Jr., of Dunster House and Augusta, Maine; John R. Richardson, Jr., of Adams House and Wellesley Hills; Alfred S. Arkley, of Leverett House and Bellevue, Wash.; and Nicholas C. Taylor, of Eliot House and Washington...
...fact, the Cup seemed safe enough for Australia this year. U.S. Kingpin Ham Richardson was far off his game, and Butch Buchholz was still a year or so away from top form. But Kramer is more of a threat to the Aussies as a promoter than a coach. If he succeeds in luring away Cooper and Anderson in 1959, Buchholz & Co. may give the U.S. its best chance in five years to recover...
Representing the University at the hearing were James Deveney, Assistant Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds in the College Area, and Fellowes Davis '42 and Richard Sawler of Shepley, Richardson, Bulfinch, and Abbot, architects of the buildings...