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...quickly over. In one of the worst drubbings in U.S. tennis final history, tired Gardnar Mulloy went down-6-1, 6-2, 6-3. The match took only 47 minutes. Said Mulloy simply: "I'm sorry I messed up the final." Then he added: "Tennis players never die. Sedgman will be a year older next year...
...reached such a low point that Gardnar Mulloy was the best it had to offer...
...hope in the final match for the U.S. tennis championship was no hope at all: at 38, Gardnar Mulloy was drained by the years, and he was to face one of the finest players ever to hop a net. Yet the crowd cheered as Mulloy walked out to the famed center court at Forest Hills, lean, fit-looking and brisk, but stiff in his stride, and greying at the temples. It was his 18th year in the singles matches, and Mulloy, decorated veteran of World War 11 (lieutenant commander skipper of an LST) and four-time U.S. doubles champion (with...
Other unseemly tennis news last week: ¶ In Miami, a group of disgruntled, discarded U.S. Davis Cup players, headed by veteran (37) Gardnar Mulloy, challenged the losing U.S. team to a charity match. Several members of the five-man team denied knowledge of the challenge. But Mulloy stuck to it, explained: "The whole thing was based on the selection of Schroeder for the Cup team." ¶ In Australia, while Frank Sedgman's "wedding gift" fund (TIME, Jan. 14) swelled to $11,892, Aussie Davis Cup Captain Harry Hopman spoke out about "amateur" tennis in his Melbourne Herald column...
Offensively, it was a sadder tale for the Bulldog. Highly-touted halfback Jerry Conway deserves a considerably lower touting after going approximately nowhere against Princeton. Ryan and sub Ed Mulloy, although the former is very deceptive (even pulls a bootleg on occasion), were consistently rushed through a porous line, and threw looping basketball-passes to reliable receiver Ed Woodsum. Yale's one magnificent back is Mr. Spears...