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Unlike most top-notch junior tennis players from Southern California, Herbie Flam has a clumsy-looking cramped stroke, often hits his forehand while awkwardly facing the net. Last week at Kalamazoo, Mich., skinny, 17-year-old Herbie did something more characteristic of his region: without dropping a set, he won the National Junior Championship for the second straight year, beating Floridian Buddy Behrens in the final, 6-3, 9-7, 6-2. He also kept a record straight: since 1933, only Southern Californians have won the National Junior...
Died. William M4 ("Little Bill") Johnston, 51, ping-pong-sized (120-lb.) tennis player whose 1915 victory over Maurice McLoughlin and gallant losing battles with Big Bill Tilden in the '20s made court history; of a heart attack; in San Francisco. A deadly hitter, with a Western-grip forehand famed around the world, Little Bill was twice national singles champion, teamed with Tilden to win the Davis Cup seven times running...
...Budge was the greatest player the world ever saw-up to now. I'll run Budge down. I'm probably the fastest player who ever played tennis. I play his forehand: that's his big weakness. I have no weakness. That's why I'm better. This tour is putting a great player with a weakness against a great player with no weakness...
...Mouledous grand slam was no surprise to the experts. Dick, a confident but not cocky youngster, began to look good last summer when he ripped through boys' tournaments in straight sets, won the National Outdoor Boys' Singles championship without trouble. Besides a powerful forehand, he has an exceptional change of pace, a tantalizing drop shot. A big fellow for his age, Dick Mouledous (whose father runs a butcher shop) is over 6 ft., weighs...
Harvard's intercollegiate tennis interests will be represented by Don S. Willner '47 and Ed L. Slater '47, when they participate in the Eastern Intercollegiate Tennis Championship Matches at Elizabeth, New Jersey, tomorrow through Sunday. Francisco "Pancho" Segura, the bow-legged Ecuadorian with the mean two-handed forehand, is the defending champion. He is currently enrolled in Miami College...