Talk:Ted Schroeder

Reference and destubbing
I have added a New York Times report of his death as a reference and destubbed it as it is too long to be a stub in my view. Capitalistroadster 05:55, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

how long did the 1949 match with Gonzales last?
A year or so ago I found the New York Times article written the day after the famous match. It said that in spite of it being a five-set match, with a ten-minute break after the third set, it took about two hours and thirty minutes to play. You've gotta remember that 60 years ago tennis was *different*. Play was continuous, more or less, there were no TV breaks, and with these two it was serve and volley. Matches were *fast*. I don't believe *anyone* ever played a 5-hour match.... Hayford Peirce (talk) 17:29, 28 June 2016 (UTC)
 * , could not find the NYT article but this article in the Evening Independent mentions the second set as lasting just 16 minutes and given the scorelines of the remaining sets I agree it is very unlikely this match lasted almost five hours. The source mentioned (The Tennis Book anthology) does list it as the 11th greatest match but only mentions the duration of the first set ('an hour and thirteen minutes..') so I have removed the match duration from the paragraph.--Wolbo (talk) 22:42, 28 June 201 (UTC)
 * Wise, I think. I could probably dig up the NYT article for you if you felt it was important. Hayford Peirce (talk) 01:56, 29 June 2016 (UTC)