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What started the fireworks in the Pacific Southwest Tennis Championships last week was a howling headline in the tabloid Los Angeles Mirror: "LARSEN STUPID, LUCKY"-SCHROEDER. All week long, spectators hoped for a Schroeder-Larsen match. They got it in the semifinal round...
...Schroeder, better known for his tennis than his diplomacy, felt he had good reason to sound off; Art Larsen, the new national champion, had been saying that he, not Schroeder, should have been named to the Davis Cup team. Ted had not competed for the national championship, and he had lost three Davis Cup matches ("I take all the blame"), but he was still sure he could take Larsen any day in the week. Not particularly expecting to be quoted, Ted popped: "The trouble with Mr. Larsen is he is too stupid to realize how lucky...
...Forest Hills, N.Y., Lefthander Art Larsen (TIME, Sept. 11) over net-rushing Herbie Flam for the national tennis title, 6-3, 4-6, 5-7, 6-4, 6-3; Mrs. Margaret Osborne du Pont over Doris Hart, 6-3, 6-3, to take the women's title for the third year...
...Taffy-haired little (5 ft. 9 in.) Lefthander Art Larsen, 25, of San Leandro, Calif., No. 6 in U.S. rankings. Larsen, a steady, unspectacular stroker who had wanted to play on the Davis Cup team himself, had had the satisfaction of putting out Davis Cupper Tom Brown...
Mulloy was wrong. In a semifinal match this week, he lost to the cool retrieving of Herbie Flam in a long, five-set match. Art Larsen subdued Dick Savitt to become the other finalist. One of the two would climb to the top of the totem pole this week, but the pole seemed stumpier than usual...