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Bender of the Harvard Club defeated the freshmen's Lew Steel, 3 to 1, in close matches. The two remaining matches were taken by the Club's Sullivan, who defeatd Joel Reynolds of Harvard, 3 to 0, and J. Daly, who blanked freshman George Laness...
...whom seem to become rabid tennis fans as soon as they can hold a racket. Last week Australia's tennis bugs were having nightmares. Reason: their star player and main hope for keeping the Davis Cup for the fifth straight year, blond, bullet-serving Lew Hoad, was playing slipshod and lazy tennis. Clearly, it was a national crisis which involved everybody from Lew Hoad's mother to Prime Minister Robert Menzies...
...while; later they faltered, but not so badly as their opponents. On a soggy, rain-soaked court last week in Melbourne's Kooyong Stadium, Australia's Ken Rosewall beat Seixas in the final of the Victorian Tournament, but that did not take the spotlight off floundering Lew Hoad (who had just turned 20 last fortnight). Hoad had barely stumbled through his opening match with Britain's young (20) Roger Becker. Then, in a match with Sweden's Sven Davidson, he eked out a precarious five-set victory. During the second and third sets, which he kicked...
Fourth row: Kekoa D. Kaapu of Honolulu and Lionel; John M. King, of Binghamton, N.Y. and Grays West; Eugene Lew of Baltimore, Md. and Stoughton South; Edward McKirdy of Newark, N.J. and Apley Court; Barry S. Meltzer of Boston and Dudley; E. Richard Meulenberg of Stony Brook, N.Y. and Matthews South; Gordon R. Sugarman of New Haven, Conn. and Mower; Griffth J. Winthrop of Canandaigua, N.Y. and Wigglesworth. Absent was Leon E. Sophics of Worcester, Mass. and Dudley
...tension broken. Milton Ellenby and William A. Rosen of Chicago, Lew Mathe of Los Angeles, John Moran of Houston and Cliff Bishop of Detroit went on to take the Masters' Knockout Championship with a string of seven straight victories, won the right to represent the U.S. in next year's international matches in New York City...