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Emerson's old spot as top-seeded player at Forest Hills was taken over by Chuck McKinley, 22, the power-driving Texan who beat all comers at Wimbledon in July. McKinley's stunning win in England (he never lost a set, polished off Australia's Fred Stolle in the finals 9-7, 6-1, 6-4) evoked comforting shades of Trabert and Don Budge and clearly established him as America's-and perhaps the world's-best tennis amateur. McKinley followed up Wimbledon with a slamming defense of his national clay courts championship...
...seven Harvard mountaineers who had been feared lost last week have reached the 19,000-foot mark in their attempt to scale the 19,420-foot North Peak of Alaska's Mt. McKinley, the tallest mountain in North America, it was reported Wednesday...
Every member of the Harvard group is an accomplished mountain climber. Abrons has previously climbed Mt. McKinley by another approach...
When sighted by veteran bush pilot Don Sheldon, the seven were at 17,000 feet. The last time they had been seen was a week ago, when they scaled 2000 feet of the previously unconquered east side of Mt. McKinley's Wickersham Wall. Observers had expressed apprehension that the party had been buried in one of a series of avalanches that swept Wickersham Wall recently, but the climbers are now above the avalanche region and are apparently out of danger...
...Mountaineering Club is attempting an extremely difficult ascent of the 19,420-foot North Peak of Mt. McKinley. The climb involves scaling Wickersham Wall, a sheer precipice of rock which rises some 14,000 feet. A group of Canadians climbed the wall last month, but the eastern route of the Harvard climbers is considerably more challenging than the route taken by the Canadian party...