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...year-old Davis Cup veteran and still a quick man on his feet (for three sets), says: "Make him run." Talbert's pal and protégé Tony Trabert, the 20-year-old sensation of the summer circuit, thinks the answer is: "Hit 'em harder." Gardnar Mulloy, a canny old hand at 37, says...
Savitt will have a fight on his hands at Forest Hills this week. In the old days there were only three or four really top-notch players. Mulloy told Savitt: "In the '30s, I never worried much about a match in the quarter-finals." Today, says Dick, "you have to worry about a lot of people. One year there might be 20 guys who, if they beat you, you don't feel bad. Last year there were about three for me. This year there's nobody." Dick's worries (in order): 1) Sedgman and Trabert...
...Mulloy, rested by the intermission, mixed canny drop shots and deep drives in the fourth set, and jumped to a 4-1 lead. In the sixth game, Savitt was unnerved by an apparently overeager baseline judge who called, loud & clear, a succession of foot faults. Savitt glowered at the linesman, stalked over to the umpire and demanded that the offending linesman be removed-presumably for incompetence. When his request was not granted, logically enough, Savitt, fuming inwardly, threw the next game and the set, by deliberately driving four straight balls, into the net. The crowd booed...
...Hand Mulloy also had foot faults called against him, but instead of fuming, he flared, "Dammit, I didn't."* Having blown off steam, Mulloy went on to blast a demoralized Savitt off the court in the final...
...final, Talbert whipped a tired Mulloy in straight sets. Then the two old hands took an advanced lesson from the Australian Davis Cuppers Frank Sedgnian and Ken MacGregor in the doubles final...