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- MILESTONES, Page 61
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- DIED. James Van Alen, 88, who changed tennis by inventing the
- tie breaker; after a fall from a terrace at his home; in
- Newport, R.I. In 1954 Van Alen founded the International Tennis
- Hall of Fame in Newport. Four years later, he devised the tie
- breaker as part of a comprehensive new scoring system to speed
- up the game. He based his rules, which feature a limited number
- of points in each game and set, on those for table tennis.
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