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...YORK is an urban wilderness. A forest of skyscrapers supports a canopy of smog, the streets are a desolate and forbidding territory, human artifices like subway tunnels and telephone booths are derelict endeavors slowly returning to the soil, while primitive creatures roam about. Yes sir, this is the new frontier, and Charlie Bronson is its trailblazing pioneer in Death Wish...
...three tours, and the spring and summer competing for one of 16 teams or zigzagging between dozens of tournaments, the once orderly sport has become a blurred kaleidoscope of perpetual motion. Twice a year though, tennis addicts get a reprieve: in July at Wimbledon and this month at Forest Hills, where the world's best players, male and female, gather to battle for top honors. As the U.S. Open got under way last week, it captured the expansive look of Tennis 1974. Items...
...Reflecting an American tennis resurgence, Forest Hills has not had so many strong U.S. contenders in years. Wimbledon Champion Jimmy Connors is seeded No. 1, with Stan Smith ranked third, Arthur Ashe seventh and Marty Riessen eleventh. Behind them is a host of hungry players on the threshold of winning their first big tournament: Dick Stockton, Roscoe Tanner, Sandy Mayer and Brian Gottfried...
...women's division, after a couple of dazzling seasons in which it gained equal footing with the men's, has tamed down a bit. Margaret Court, last year's Forest Hills winner, stayed home in Australia because she recently gave birth to her second child. Superstar-Entrepreneur Billie Jean King has lately been in something of a slump. Thus much of the suspense settled on the question of whether Chris Evert could complete her rapid transit from crown princess to empress of the sport. Grass is not her favorite surface, though that did not stop her from...
...When Forest Hills admitted professionals for the first time in 1968, the prize money was $100,000. This year it is $271,000. The men's and women's singles winners will each get a $6,000 car and $5,000 championship ring plus the $22,500 first prize. The money reflects the general boom in tennis that leads Open Director Bill Talbert to think it is "easily conceivable" that Forest Hills will be worth half a million dollars in five years. This is the kind of inflation the competitors applaud...