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...Newcomer. Australia had reason to be cocky. Though brilliant Adrian Quist was a little past his peak and suffering from recurrent asthma, two-fisted Jack Bromwich was better than ever. Aussie ace in the hole: a 24-year-old wonder who sometimes plays barefoot, named Dennis ("Dinny") Pails...
...last week's National Tennis Championships at Adelaide, Pails ripped through Quist, 6-2, 6-4, 6-2. When he squared off against Bromwich in the finals, he carried his more seasoned senior to five sets, lost the match 5-7, 6-3, 7-5, 3-6, 6-2. A stubborn, powerful player, with the doglike retrieving instincts of Georgia's Bitsy Grant, he also had plenty of offensive equipment, a cannonball service, a good backhand, a devastating overhead. He swung his heavy (15¼ oz.) racket two-handed in Bromwich-Vivian McGrath style...
When the Davis Cup finals are decided at Melbourne's Kooyong courts next December, the defending Australian team will be Bromwich and Pails in singles, Bromwich and Quist in the doubles. Said Australia's tennis boss Sir Norman Brookes, one of the wiliest players who ever trod a court: "We hope to retain the Davis Cup for a couple of years, at least . . . that is, if you'll allow me to pick the [U.S.] team...
...Parker seem certain team choices. Their fellow-travelers may well be Champions Lieut. Ted Schroeder and Ensign Jack Kramer, if they are out of uniform by then. Such a foursome seemed a poor bet to win the cup back from the Australians, who have Veterans Jack Bromwich, Adrian Quist and Pat Crawford, as well as an 18-year-old wonder boy named Ducky Pails. The Australians can hardly wait to spring Ducky on the world...
...subconscious though it may be. Little boys bite little girls; men hear seals barking in the middle of the night; shapeless women spring into rooms crying, "I come from haunts of coot and hern." Doctors abandon restraint ("You're not my patient, you're my meat, Mrs. Quist...