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Chum Steele, fresh from the lton Tournament, is on top of his game. He defeated the Puerto Rican champion before losing to America's top player, Tennis Ralston...
...Heinz, General Foods and Kellogg have all opened plants in Japan. Green Giant is building a vegetable canning plant near Milan, and Libby, McNeill & Libby in July opened a new cannery at Vauvert in southern France. This week, to the distress of French poultrymen, a company jointly owned by Ralston Purina and France's Duquesne opens a large poultry processing plant in Brittany...
...predicted before the challenge round started - but after the first two singles and the doubles, the upstart Americans led 2-1. Then came the crucial match between Australia's Fred Stolle, 26, and the U.S.'s talented and temperamental Dennis Ralston. Last year, when the U.S. beat Australia 3-2 in Melbourne, Hopman was criticized for leaving Stolle off the team, playing young John Newcombe instead. Now the snipers were shooting again. "Stolle is too inexperienced," they said. "He can't take the pressure...
...Someone Like Me." For a while, it looked as though they were right. With the match tied at two sets apiece, Ralston broke through Stolle's service for a 2-1 lead in the fifth set, needed only to hold his own serve the rest of the way to sew up the cup. Sighing, Stolle sank into a chair at courtside while Hopman hovered over him, whispering furiously in his ear. What he said has been lost to history. But Stolle nodded, stalked onto the court, and broke Ralston's serve right back-with a perfectly placed...
That left the two teams even, and they were still even after four sets and six games of the next day's crucial doubles match. Emerson won with his slicing serve. Now it was Ralston's turn, and his serve is his weakest point. Two serves, and it was love-30. But then, backs to the wall, the Americans abruptly came alive. In a series of blasting volleys directly at the Aussies' feet, they reeled off four straight points to make it 4-4. Fred Stolle wound up to serve-and Ralston looped a backhand volley over...