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...London, America's top-ranking tennis player, 39-year-old Gardnar Mulloy, angrily hurled his racket at a linesman and stormed off the Queens Club court after he was beaten, 6-8, 7-5, 8-6, by Australian Rex Hartwig, an unseeded player, in the London tennis tournament. Fumed Mulloy: "I should have won. I was robbed...
...reimbursed for what few tabs he picked up-and earned no reportable income. Last week Vic and Dolly Ann dropped in at San Juan, Puerto Rico. Also on hand, amidst palm-shrouded splendor, for the first annual Caribe Hilton (Hotel) Invitation Tournament were creaky (39) but top-ranked Gardnar Mulloy, Art Larsen (No. 3) and Billy Talbert (No. 6). As usual, they came to play a little tennis and also just to play. Their daily regimen was elegantly simple: breakfast in bed or on private balconies, sunbathing on the cabana-fringed beach, lunch, a little tennis, more sunbathing, dining & dancing...
...Juan, Ambassador Seixas teamed up with Larsen to beat Mulloy and Talbert, capture the men's doubles title. Then Vic headed off for London again-via Florida, Texas, Rome, Paris and other continental points. Some distant day, when he finally finds his play "slipping," Vic plans to go to work in his father's Philadelphia wholesale plumbing and heating supply company...
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...
Again the luck of the draw worked to pit the Australians and Americans against teammates. Sedgman whipped Rose in straight sets; Mulloy outfought and outthought Richardson, also in straight sets, to go on to the final...