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What started the fireworks in the Pacific Southwest Tennis Championships last week was a howling headline in the tabloid Los Angeles Mirror: "LARSEN STUPID, LUCKY"-SCHROEDER. All week long, spectators hoped for a Schroeder-Larsen match. They got it in the semifinal round...
...Schroeder, better known for his tennis than his diplomacy, felt he had good reason to sound off; Art Larsen, the new national champion, had been saying that he, not Schroeder, should have been named to the Davis Cup team. Ted had not competed for the national championship, and he had lost three Davis Cup matches ("I take all the blame"), but he was still sure he could take Larsen any day in the week. Not particularly expecting to be quoted, Ted popped: "The trouble with Mr. Larsen is he is too stupid to realize how lucky...
When he saw the story, Schroeder was as startled as Larsen, but he made no apologies. When the two met in their semifinal match Larsen promptly made Ted swallow a few of his words by taking the first set, 6-4, the second, 6-3. Ted could not get his big serve banging in, and Larsen's deftly angled net shots were leaving him frozen-footed...
...Blond, crew-cut Herbie Flam, 21, U.C.L.A. senior, and victor in the 1950 Clay Court Championships where he defeated the U.S.'s No. 1 Davis Cupper, Ted Schroeder...
...Schroeder, who might have done so, packed his bag and returned to his California job (refrigerators) after the Davis Cup matches...