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Still sizzling, Tony took the center court next day and wasted no time. Now there was no nonplaying Davis Cup captain sitting on the sidelines to talk over strategy every other game. Tony was on his own, and playing better than ever. On the scarred and rain-damp turf, Rosewall could never get set for his nicely timed ground shots. The hard-hopping serve and sharply angled volleys that are Tony's pride kept little Ken off balance. Once in the first set, and again in the second, Tony turned cautious; Rosewall promptly picked up the pace and threatened...
Washington, B.C. is a blasé and socially jaded city where almost anything can happen without drawing a crowd. But even Washingtonians were impressed one blazing afternoon last week by a pastoral scene near suburban Olney, across the District line in Maryland. The throb of hooves on turf, the click of mallets on willow root balls, and the clink of ice in highball glasses were enough to identify the occasion as a polo match, but the diplomatic license tags and the Caddies and Jags that outlined the field indicated that it was of more than passing interest. The interest...
...Judge was closing fast. Willie just flicked his whip; he never hit Swaps once. The California champion reached out and finished a length in front. He had covered the mile-and-three-sixteenths in 1:54 3/5 to crack the track record and tie the American standard for the turf distance...
...Playing as if they had been teammates for years, the All-Star collegians (all one jump away from the ranks of the pros) took on the Cleveland Browns in a preseason football game and splattered the turf of Chicago's Soldier Field with the remnants of the pro champions. With Notre Dame's Ralph Guglielmi calling the shots (and pitching passes with midseason accuracy), with Baylor's L. G. ("Long Gone") Dupre slipping like quicksilver through the Brown secondary, and with Ohio State's tiny (139 lbs.) Tad Weed booting precise placements, the collegians outplayed...
...rain-slicked turf of Philadelphia's Merion Cricket Club, Wimbledon Champion Tony Trabert whipped his Davis Cup Teammate Vic Seixas and took away the Pennsylvania State Grass Court championship, 6-1, 6-2, 6-3. Earlier, in the Pennsylvania and Eastern women's final, Wimbledon Champion Louise Brough beat New York State Champion Althea Gibson for the women's title...