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...heavy favorite, Ted Schroeder of California had no reason to be jittery, but as usual he was. As he took the court for the Wimbledon singles finals last week, he nodded awkwardly toward the royal box, where Queen Mary sat watching, instead of bending in the customary bow. Then Schroeder devoted his full attention to stocky, left-handed Jaroslav Drobny of Czechoslovakia across...
...charm. After that it began to sputter; Drobny's weakness has always been inconsistency, a failing which prompts Prague's Communist-controlled press to call him a bourgeois when he loses, praise him as the standard-bearer of "our people's democratic republic" when he wins. Schroeder swept easily through the second and third sets, misfired in the fourth. But he never seemed in serious danger, and ran out the final game of the fifth set at love to win his first Wimbledon title, 3-6, 6-0, 6-3, 4-6, 6-4. Then he tossed...
Other Wimbledon winners in what turned out to be American week: Pancho Gonzales and Frank Parker, who won the men's doubles from Schroeder and Gard-nar Mulloy; and Louise Brough, who beat Margaret Osborne du Pont in the women's singles...
...Badminton. Since a Japanese American introduced him to badminton 14 years ago, Dave Freeman has been a talented athletic radical. After winning the National Junior Tennis Championship at 17 (he beat Ted Schroeder and Jake Kramer consistently in those days), he gave up big-time tennis because practicing bored him. Although he was besieged with athletic scholarships, he paid his own way to attend Pomona College, then went on to Harvard Medical School. Beginning in 1939, playing when the mood suited him and following no training rules, he was Mr. Badminton...
...Pierian Sodality of 1808 in presenting Schroeder and Kirkpatrick again a year after their last concert in Sanders Theater...