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The newest star on the U.S. tennis horizon is a 20-year-old Cincinnati boy named Marion Anthony (Tony) Trabert. Already this year he has twice beaten the U.S. champion, Art Larsen-once on clay (in the final of the National Clay Court championship) and last week at Southampton, on...
In his semifinal match at Southampton against Davis Cup Veteran Gardnar Mulloy (37) one of the game's smoothest stylists, Tony showed the patience of Job, content with driving base-line rallies until he got his opening for the kill. His patience and steadiness beat Mulloy, 6-2, 9...
Tony Trabert (rhymes with Say, Bert) has an even temperament, the physique of a light heavyweight (6 ft., 175 Ibs.), the cat-quick footwork of a basketball player (which he is), and an ambition to become the world's best player. Trabert owes much of his fine game, and...
In 1950, Trabert ranked twelfth in the U.S. This year, after playing a winter of basketball at the University of Cincinnati (Class of '53, majoring in political science), Tony has moved up fast in the tennis world. His 1951 record: the tri-state championship (over Talbert); the clay-court...
¶ When the basketball scandals broke like carbuncles on the red neck of Manhattan's Madison Square Garden (TIME, Jan. 29 et seq.), Illinois' Bradley University was as horrified as any of them. Last spring Bradley staged its own private invitation tournament, to make sure that its team...