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...beating all comers that any defeat was considered something of an accident. Last week the young ex-amateur kings learned something about the hazards of their new trade. Making their professional debuts in Los Angeles and New York, Sedgman, 25, and McGregor, 23, smashed head on into Old Pros Jack Kramer and Pancho Segura, two 31-year-old tennis oldsters...
Confronted with this rebellion, the weak government fired the Sultan's pros, promoted the insurgents, and virtually handed them the army. Overwhelmed by futility, the Sultan last week resigned. History, he said, would judge whether he had been right...
...Peak. No one could doubt that the new pros had earned their pay. Out-gunning and outgeneraling the U.S. players at every turn, Sedgman never let either of his opponents get really set, much less launch an attack. Seixas, who had sent U.S. hopes soaring when he defeated Sedgman in the Victorian tournament, was no match for Sedgman at the top of his game. And Trabert, on a 29-day Navy leave, was so badly out of condition that he collapsed in exhaustion under the blistering pace set by rangy Ken McGregor in his opening match...
Erskine Caldwell, Ludwig Lewisohn, and Thomas Dunn will debate the pros and cons of "The Naturalistic Novel" at 8 p.m. tonight at the Law School Forum in the New Lecture Hall...
...York's Jamaica race track last week, even the hardbitten pros felt a twinge of excitement as a powerful, dark grey colt named Native Dancer went to the post-at a champion's odds of 1 to 5. Unbeaten in eight starts, at distances up to 6½ furlongs, the two-year-old Dancer had to answer one more question: Could he go a distance? In the East View Stakes, at a mile-and-a-sixteenth, he answered the question...