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...Brisbane's Milton Courts. Lefthanders Rod Laver and Neale Fraser each won two singles matches; Laver teamed with Roy Emerson to defeat Mexico's Rafael Osuna and Antonio Palafox in a straight-sets doubles match that lasted only 70 min. At the closing ceremony, Mexican Captain Pancho Contreras wistfully fondled the Davis Cup, announced that his team would be back to try again. Yelled one Down Under fan, bored with yet another victory: "I hope you bloody well win the thing." Chances improved slightly when Laver, the No. 1 amateur, officially announced that he is turning...
Writer & Patron. Things came hard to him from the beginning. A Mexican with enough Irish in him to make Quinn his real name, he was bora in Chihuahua during Pancho Villa's revolt. Fleeing the country, his 16-year-old mother carried him 500 miles on her back to Juarez and eventually to El Paso, where his 19-year-old father rejoined them. "My youth was all whirlwinds of sand and threatening rain." he says. The family rode a cattle car to California, where they worked m orchards picking fruit and nuts, eating walnut gruel for breakfast and sleeping...
India's monsoon rains drummed down on the makeshift rope-and-bamboo stadium in Madras, and Mexico's Davis Cup team wondered if they were there for tennis or water polo. "We will lose our edge," fretted Coach Pancho Contreras as the first day's matches were postponed. The wonder was that the Mexicans had any edge left at all. In a comedy of errors-or possibly gamesmanship-the Latin Americans spent the better part of a week bumping around India while their hosts acted as if they weren't even there...
...shrewd, ambitious, high-speed operator who somehow manages to be a popular fellow nonetheless. He plays softball with Pancho Gonzales and the sons of Bing Crosby. He is probably the only regular at the craps tables of Las Vegas who goes off in the daytime to water-ski on nearby Lake Mead above Hoover Dam, and his go-go dynamism stops dead when the Dodgers are playing in Chavez Ravine. He takes off for the ball park...
Kramer's decision to quit was good business: he is busy building a plush racquet club in Rolling Hills, Calif., and his pro tour has lost its spectator appeal since the retirement of the former perennial professional World Champion Pancho Gonzales. But there was another motive, said Kramer: his love for the game of tennis. "I suddenly realized," he wrote in SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, "that my presence is actually retarding the development not only of pro tennis but of tennis as a whole." Today's amateurs, said Kramer, simply play bad tennis: the quality of the competition...