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...player of the six Americans who made the trip, complained angrily because he wasn't chosen. At 1:30 p.m. that afternoon, when Schroeder strode out before 14,500 fans in Kooyong Stadium on a slippery grass court, the pressure was on him. He was to meet Jack Bromwich, Australia's big gun, in the opening match...
Rush, Rest and Win. Captain Pate, who squatted beside the water buckets with a grin frozen on his face, had gambled on Schroeder, the money player. At first, it looked as if he had guessed wrong. Ambidextrous Bromwich, not quite as spry as of old, was nevertheless steady; Schroeder flubbed the simplest shots and lost the first set, 3-6. Then Schroeder, who plays with his mouth open, his tongue out and blowing ferociously, began to use his best weapon-a net game. He rushed the net at every chance, smashing beautifully and volleying down the lines with superb accuracy...
...next two sets (6-1, 6-2), Schroeder's all-out attack made Bromwich look almost helpless, but the pace was telling on himself. He let Bromwich win the fourth set, and tire himself doing it, while he got back strength and wind. The final, fifth set Schroeder won easily. The stunned Australian crowd, after seeing its own star beaten, cheered Schroeder for five minutes...
...whip this week was an old crony-Australia's ambidextrous Jack Bromwich. Their games were unlike: Kramer is an enthusiastic big hitter, Bromwich is strictly a baseline hugger. Says Kramer: "I have the kind of game that can beat him if I am absolutely right." On their match would probably turn the Davis Cup of 1946. Experts agreed that none of the other three Americans-Frank Parker, Ted Schroeder, Gardnar Mulloy-nor Australia's Adrian Quist, Dinny Pails and Newcomer Colin Long were any match for the Jacks...
...Jacks had felt that they would have a showdown some day. Kramer, then 18, did the driving, was arrested twice and spent one night in a Nebraska jail. The car burned out a bearing, lost a rod and had plenty of flat tires. There were additional refreshment stops for Bromwich, 20, who became acquainted with banana splits and ate four or five a day. That was the year that Bromwich and Quist upset the U.S. team and took the Cup home to Melbourne. There it has stayed, unplayed for-because of the war-ever since...