Word: jakes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pairings for the opening singles matches-the U.S.'s Jake Kramer v. Australia's Dinny Pails, the U.S.'s Ted Schroeder v. Australia's Jack Bromwich-were the same as for last December's first day in Melbourne. Champion Kramer set right to work to show that the 5-0 sweep at Melbourne was no fluke. Pails is a picture player with rhythmic, flowing ground strokes; but against Kramer's almost flawless all-court attack, he could offer only token resistance and shake his curly head sadly. The score of Kramer's victory...
With better luck, it might have been his ' third or fourth title. Big Jake thinks that he is playing no better now than he did in 1942, the year he swept through ten straight tournaments and was stricken with appendicitis on the eve of Forest Hills. The next year it was ptomaine poisoning. In the 1944 and 1945 seasons, he was off on Coast Guard duty. He talks about it as though it happened to somebody else and was all a big joke...
...Jump. Now, at last, Big Jake Kramer is sitting pretty. It is no secret that he has had at least two juicy offers to turn professional. Bing Crosby Enterprises Inc. is dangling a fat guarantee, $35,000 for the first four months (or 35% of the take, whichever is larger), to get him to go gunning for Bobby Riggs. Another proposition comes from a Chicago promoter named Jack Harris, who says he will meet Crosby's offer and go higher. Harris also wants Schroeder and Pancho Segura as a supporting feature: Crosby prefers a second billing of ex-Lady...
Right now Jake is pretty tired of hotels and laundry problems. As soon as possible he is going back home to Montebello, just outside Los Angeles, and he is looking forward to playing some golf-which he hopes to take up seriously some day, as Ellsworth Vines did after he made almost $200,000 out of pro tennis. (Last week, by tying in the Reno Open, Vines added $1,600 to the approximately $50,000 he has earned in five years as a golf pro.) Late in the month, Kramer will play in the Pacific Southwest Championships at the cement...
After that, he might get to thinking about that cocky Bobby Riggs. During the past seven years, Big Jake and Cocky Bobby have often played against each other in doubles, sometimes for big side bets. Last fall at the Los Angeles Club, Big Jake (teamed with Segura) won $1,000 from Riggs (teamed with Frank Parker). But, by unspoken agreement, the two have never so much as suggested playing singles against each other since 1941-even for fun. When & if they do, it will be in Madison Square Garden, before a packed house, for important money. For Jake Kramer knows...