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...antics of the pair of challenging Italians, Orlando Sirola and Nicola Pietrangeli, who had knocked out the U.S. team. Then onto the court for Australia walked a pair of lefthanders who never weep and never giggle, shudder at the idea of throwing a racket or a tantrum. All Neale Fraser, 27, and Rod ("Rocket") Laver, 22, ever seem to do is win-and last week they defended the Davis Cup with a brand of tennis that has become indisputably the best in the amateur world...
Aside from their records, U.S. sports fans know little about the Aussie champions, but Fraser and Laver are heroes Down Under. Son of a Victoria judge, Neale Fraser began to play at eleven ("Mum gave us rackets to keep us off the streets"), was finally able to persuade his skeptical parents that he should concentrate on tennis instead of following the family tradition of becoming a lawyer or a doctor...
Mother Hen. For years Fraser's trophy case was stocked with little more than a few mugs and a kimono from Japan, but in 1959, when the last of his Aussie rivals turned pro, he finally came into...
...Fraser led his team to a Davis Cup victory over the U.S. is the current U.S. and Wimbledon Singles champion. Though he has never let training interfere with his smoking or partying, on the court Fraser has no real weakness except a tendency to let his mind wander. Before each match Fraser is carefully coaxed to the proper mental pitch by famed Aussie Davis Cup Captain Harry Hopman...
...swimming, the U.S. had a marvelous week. Three days after she had finished second to Australia's Dawn Fraser in the 100 meters, California's blonde Chris von Saltza, 16, left her rival floundering back in fifth place as she won the 400 meters in 4:50.6 to smash the Olympic record by three full seconds. Anchorman Jeff Farrell, 23, kept out of the 100-meters freestyle by a July appendicitis attack, boiled through the water to bring home world records in the 400-meter medley relay (4:05.4) and 800-meter freestyle relay (8:10.2). Bobbing like...