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Even the women upset the pre-tournament odds. Riding high after winning 14 consecutive championships, New York's leggy Althea Gibson (TIME, June 4) succumbed to center-court jitters and was beaten in the quarter-finals by top-ranking U.S. Amateur Singles Star Shirley Fry. Althea took the defeat not as the end but merely as an interruption of her long, often lonely, journey out of Harlem to the top of the women's tennis heap. "I'll be back here next year," she promised grimly. Earlier, pert little Beverly Baker Fleitz of California, the choice...
...unsung Allen Morris, onetime Georgia Tech footballer. Elegant Budge Patty, 1950 champion and seeded fourth, was ousted by Britain's hard-hitting but erratic 20-year-old Bobby Wilson. Luis Ayala of Chile downed Denmark's high-spirited Kurt Nielsen, who reached the finals in 1955. Althea Gibson, the American Negro, arrived safely in the quarterfinals, along with fellow Americans Beverly Baker Fleitz, Shirley Fry, and Defending Champion Louise Brough...
...After botching the first set, lanky Althea Gibson of New York's Harlem conquered her jitters and her longtime nemesis, California's Louise Brough, to win the Northern Women's Singles title in Manchester, England, 2-6, 6-4, 6-4, and establish herself as the favorite to win next month's Wimbledon championship...
...snatch, 440 Ibs. in the clean and jerk. He pressed only 400 Ibs., just missing his own record of 408 Ibs. ¶ Keeping up the clever, carefully planned tennis that has made her virtually unbeatable since she started her foreign tour last fall, the U.S.'s Althea Gibson (TIME, June 4) staved off a last-set rally by Britain's Anne Shilcock, won the Surrey County title at Surbiton, England, 6-3, 13-11, for her17th victory of the international campaign, her eighth...
Last fall the U.S. State Department sent Althea on a good-will tour abroad. Her enthusiasm plus the responsibility of representing her country did wonders for her often erratic game. From Rangoon to Stockholm her concentration never wa vered. Only Angela Mortimer had the Indian sign on her (in the Scandinavian indoor, the Egyptian international and the Alexandria finals). But last week Althea clipped the wings of Angela, too. Uncertain footwork and an unreliable backhand are large faults to be covered up, even by Althea's grim determination. But so far Althea has managed. When she turns...