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...prowl for a likely vote getter in next December's Senate elections, the Australian Republican Party went to a promising place. Adelaide's Charles Birk's department store, picked out a $25-a-week salesgirl, broad-shouldered, brunette Olympic Swimming Champion Dawn Fraser, 23. Figuring that her five world records would make her all but unbeatable in swim-conscious Australia, the party invited Dawn to carry its banner but got a polite brush-off. "I understand one of the party's aims is to do away with the royal family." said loyal Monarchist Dawn...
...home, where he ran up six Spanish doubles and two Spanish singles championships, handsome Andres Gimeno (pronounced Hee-may-no) is a national hero. In athletic Australia, where he beat Neale Fraser and Roy Emerson in late '58, Gimeno is regarded as an undesirable alien. In the U.S. he is only faintly remembered as the harder-hitting half of the unpronounceable Spanish team that won the 1960 National Indoor doubles championship by default (the other half: Manuel Santana).* But when Promoter Kramer offered Gimeno a pro contract last year, many tennis fans thought that Kramer's racquet...
Married. Neale Fraser, 27, handsome, hard-serving Australian who is the world's best amateur tennis player; and Wendy Mclver, 23, non-tennis playing daughter of a purchasing agent; in South Caulfield, Victoria...
Desperate Racket. Against the Italians last week, Fraser and Laver were devastating. In the opening singles match, Fraser blasted the bravely grinning Sirola off the court. 4-6, 6-3, 6-3, 6-2. Next, Laver deftly whizzed shots past the desperate racket of Pietrangeli to win as he pleased, 8-6, 6-4, 6-3. The following day, Fraser and slick Roy Emerson, 24, won the third and deciding match by briskly disposing of the Italians in the doubles. 10-8, 5-7, 6-2, 6-4. By the third day, the Aussies had routed the Italians four matches...
Long before they routed the Italians, Fraser and Laver had received fat offers from Pro Promoter Jack Kramer. To date both players have insisted that they will not turn pro. If they stay true to their word, Neale Fraser and Rod Laver now stand so far above their rivals that they might very well rule world amateur tennis for years to come...