advertising placard

They take me back to 1974, when I saw an advertising placard on the sales desk of an old lumber company.

There were boxes behind the baselines for players to lay the towels on at some courts; at others, players draped them over a fence or an advertising placard.

After sprinting a few yards behind the back of the end zone, the 5-foot-8, 175-pound dynamo leaped over an advertising placard for a credit union.

Unable to find a rhythm, Djokovic lost the first two sets Sunday and flung his racket onto the court in disgust and later thwacked it against his bench, sending shards of an advertising placard flying.

He might have run a second or two faster, but he had to jump over a small advertising placard in his final strides to align himself with the tape at the finish line.