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...opponent in Wimbledon's finals was Australia's ambidextrous Geoff Brown, 22, who serves righthanded, hits with his left hand on the left side, and with a two-handed grip on the right side. Petra, 30, onetime French infantryman who spent 18 months in a German prison camp, barked at ball boys, scowled at the linesmen, whooped when he won a point. He was not so much surly or unsportsmanlike as unable to contain himself. Both Petra and Brown had blinding serves. Seldom had so much power and so little finesse been seen in a Wimbledon finals. Petra...
...game to watch will be Kramer's at Wimbledon against Australia's flashy newcomer, Geoff Broun and Dinny Pails. Australia won the Cup seven years ago, because of the war has not had to defend it since...
Young (36), stocky Geoff Parsons is well equipped for his new job. Son of the Herald Tribune's longtime chief editorial writer, he has been a newsman since his college days as a reporter on the Harvard Crimson. Organizer and for nearly five years head of the Herald Tribune's Chicago office, he was sent abroad as London correspondent in 1941, two years later became chief of the London bureau. His able dispatches on French politics presumably earned him his editorship...
...Geoff Chaucer's final...