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...Wimbledon's famed center court for the finals, the crowd treated him like a villain. When he double-faulted they cheered. When he smacked a beauty, they sat on their hands. The big Californian put everything into winning the first set from Australia's steady, ambidextrous* Jack Bromwich, 29. Then he got "tired" again...
...Bromwich, with the fans solidly behind him, worked up to match point three times and then failed to cash in. Having yet to win a Wimbledon championship, he was obviously suffering from "center-court jitters." In the excitement of Falkenburg's stubborn last stand, it was easy to forget how bad both players' tennis was. After Bromwich's serve was broken in the crucial fifth set, he began muffing everything. Falkenburg's winning margin: 7-5, 0-6, 6-2, 3-6, 7-5. Said he: "I was lucky...
...match between blond, ambidextrous Jack Bromwich and Ted Schroeder, it was again an all-court player with a "big service" and smashing net game against a baseline hugger. The match was exciting but sloppy. Schroeder's game lacks the finality of Kramer's, and last week Bromwich's hairline drives, particularly his two-fisted baseball swing on his right side, were only occasionally as good as they were in 1939, when the Australians won the cup. Grimacing and holding their heads at their errors, they split the first two sets; then temperamental Ted got his savage overhead...
...looked like the start of another sweep, but the Aussies were not through yet. Next day in the doubles, Bromwich and bespectacled Colin Long, a Davis Cup newcomer, were quick to take advantage of an uncertainty in Schroeder's forehand and a lack of sting in Kramer's service. Encouraged by an underdog-loving crowd that wildly cheered their winners and groaned sympathetically when they missed, Bromwich and Long broke Kramer's service three times, won the match in four sets...
Tennis fans had not forgotten the 1939 challenge round when Bromwich and Adrian Quist were down 2-0, then won the doubles and the last two singles matches. It might inspire the 1947 challengers to outdo themselves. It was also enough to put the U.S. stars on their mettle. In next day's opening match, Schroeder beat Pails for the clincher that kept...