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...vault honors (at 14½ ft.) in the Drake Relays, after both failed at 15 ft.; at Des Moines. ¶ Pat O'Sullivan (with a birdie on the final hole), her second North & South Amateur golf title; at Pinehurst, N.C. ¶ Egypt's Jaroslav Drobny, over Dick Savitt, the U.S.'s Australian champion, 6-1, 6-3, 7-5, the Paris tennis title and his fifth straight victory over Savitt; in Paris. ¶ Newcastle United in an upset over Blackpool, 2-0, before 100,000 fans (including King George and Queen Elizabeth), the British Football Association...
...Jaroslav Drobny, ex-Czech Davis Cup tennis player (victor over the U.S.'s Dick Savitt), over Italian Davis Cupper Gianni Cucelli (who upset the U.S.'s Wimbledon Champion Budge Patty), 6-1, 10-8, 6-0, for the Rome title...
...time. With U.S. Champion Art Larsen, 25, he had been barnstorming through a succession of Australian provincial tournaments for three months. Moreover, he got some expert informal coaching this trip from Adrian Quist, Davis Cup veteran and three-time Australian champion. In 14 hours of friendly drill, Quist helped Savitt improve his service grip and straighten out his hard, flat drives...
...this was that, by the Australian championship last week, Savitt was playing a "big game" with more style than he had ever shown before. Sedgman and McGregor repeatedly found his serves too hot to handle, and his base-line drives from forehand and backhand kept them more often than not on the defensive. It took him five sets against Sedgman (2-6, 7-5, 1-6, 6-3, 6-4), four against McGregor...
...Print That!" The Sydney press hailed him as "one of the world's best base-line players," possessed of a "killer spirit" and "the finest backhand we've seen since Donald Budge won our championship in 1938." Said Savitt, making Mother's point again: "At Cornell the weather was too bad for tennis in winter. This is the first time I've ever had an opportunity to play tennis past September...