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...ball, to say nothing of the Yanks. On the appointed day, the temperature was in the 90s, flocks of cawing crows hovered low overhead, and Indian fans heckled the Americans' both from the stands and from nearby apartment-house balconies. When California's Dennis Ralston blasted a serve past Krishnan and the linesman signaled a clean ace, the galleries set up such a hullabaloo that the umpire shrugged, and replaced the linesman...
...Down one set and 0-5 to Britain's Billy Knight, Florida's Frank Froehling rallied brilliantly to win a crucial singles match, 4-6, 8-6, 6-4, 6-4. Wimbledon Champion Chuck McKinley won two singles matches in straight sets, teamed with Dennis Ralston to take the doubles. Still to go before the U.S. gets a crack at perennial Cup holder Australia: the interzone finals next month against India. > Oklahoma: a 17-12 upset victory over No. 1-ranked Southern California...
After Chuck McKinley and Dennis Ralston won the doubles in four sets from Mike Sangster and Bobby Wilson Friday, McKinley and Frank Froehling completed the shut-out by winning singles matches yesterday...
Afterwards, however, Ralston's game seemed to slump. He lost sets to several unheard-of players in the U.S. championships, then was defeated in the quarterfinals by Brasil's Ronnie Barnes. Froehling murdered Barnes the next day, giving him seven games in three sets...
...impressed everyone before losing to Osuna. But one tournament does not make a tennis player, and Froehling had looked simply awful earlier this year. Apparently Kelleher decided to gamble with Froehling's hot hand and his experience on the kind of clay courts used at Bournemouth, rather than Ralston's erratic tennis. The gamble now seems to have paid off handsomely...