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...other players, sweating and spent, ambled to the clubhouse showers, they paused for a moment to watch Dick Savitt, the boy who has won two big ones this year and is hot after the third.* In their speculative eyes there was a new respect, but skepticism...
They knew he could be beaten; he has lost more tournaments this year than he has won. Nevertheless, nobody can win the Australian championship and Wimbledon in the same year by accident; they knew that Dick Savitt was the man to watch this week...
...Davis Cup Team, over Canada in five straight matches; in Montreal. After Dick Savitt and Tony Trabert won their singles matches in straight sets, Trabert and Budge Patty clinched the title with a 6-4, 6-3, 6-2 victory in the doubles. Next day Patty and Art Larsen took their singles to complete the shutout. Next stop: The interzone final matches against Sweden in Australia next December...
...Hand Mulloy also had foot faults called against him, but instead of fuming, he flared, "Dammit, I didn't."* Having blown off steam, Mulloy went on to blast a demoralized Savitt off the court in the final...
...While Savitt and Trabert were taking their header at Orange, Art Larsen and Herb Flam sailed through their singles matches against the Mexican Davis Cup team at the Westchester Country Club in Rye, N.Y. Then the doubles team of Flam & Vic Seixas polished off Mexico's brother combination of Armando & Rolando Vega to put the U.S. into the American zone finals against Canada...