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...both; they may some day be on display at Forest Hills or Wimbledon. Four years ago, the school's problem child was a talented Mexican-American lad of 15 who found both discipline and schoolwork distasteful. He cut classes at high school, finally dropped out altogether. So Richard ("Pancho") Gonzales ceased to be one of the Jones boys...
That meant that Pancho no longer got the benefits of specialized coaching, got no expense money and no invitations to the best tournaments. Being taboo at the swank Los Angeles Tennis Club, he drifted over to the public park courts. Just the opposite of Pancho was Herbie Flam: he was hardworking, well-behaved and a model Jones boy. Under Jones's careful handling, Herbie Flam twice became national junior champion. Last week lanky (6 ft. 2 in.) Pancho Gonzales wangled an invitation to play in the Southern California Championships and soon came face to face with Herbie Flam...
With the United States Davis Cup squad in Australia, the remaining sixteen top men in the country including the two-handed racquet-wielder Pancho Segura, Bob Falkenburg, Seymour Greenberg, and Jack Tuero, are being invited to this meet. Its top-flight competition will not be new to Backe who ranked eighth nationally among Juniors in 1942 and in the same year advanced to the Sugar Bowl quarter-finals where he bowed to Billy Talbert only after forcing the doubles star to an extra...
Dadswell's roving is the current phase of an old restlessness. He was 16 when he broke in as a columnist ("Village Gossip by the Boy Reporter") on the old Chicago American. Two years later he scooped the U.S. press when he interviewed Bandit Pancho Villa in Mexico. Since then, on a dozen different papers, he has been in every newspaper slot from reporter to publisher-editor, with time out as photographer, newsreel cameraman, and front man for circuses...
...father left to join one of the revolutionary armies, Emilio, at nine, became head of the family. Practically at once he shot and killed a man for molesting his mother. Hustled into a reform school, he escaped and joined the revolution himself. He fought under General Carranza against Pancho Villa, was captured, sentenced to die at dawn and escaped from a drunken guard. Later he fought with Obregón against Carranza, then against Obregón for General de la Huerta. Jailed again, he blew up his cell with smuggled dynamite, appropriated a horse and galloped north...