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...Australia, which already boasts three of the world's best amateur players (Sedgman, Ken McGregor and Mervyn Rose), has such strength in depth that a pair of downy-cheeked 17-year-olds named Kenneth Rosewall and Lewis Hoad may well keep the Davis Cup in Australia for another decade...
Before the crowd at center court had time to catch its breath, broad-backed (5 ft. 10 in., 170 Ibs.), blond Lewis ("The Truck Driver") Hoad, who balefully blasts the ball, in contrast to Rosewall's defter touch, was meeting 1950 Title-holder Larsen. The U.S.'s No. 3, a retriever, was whipped...
Ouster & Outlaster. The double upset by the youngsters left four Australians in the round of eight (McGregor defaulted in the first round because of a pulled muscle). Next day, thanks to the luck of the draw, Sedgman ousted his teammate, Hoad; Mulloy, playing one of the best games of his career, outlasted Rosewall jn five sets. The other semifinalists: Rose, Aussie No. 3, who whipped Dick Savitt, the U.S.'s No. 2, in straight sets; ig-year-old Ham Richardson, the U.S.'s No. 7, who outlasted Straight Clark in five sets...
...Stubbs '21 will succeed E. L. Bigelow '21 as hoad coach of the hockey team this winter, according to an announcement made yesterday by W. J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics...