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...gangly; his face was browned and his legs a little bowed-although he had never been closer to a horse than the bettors' booths on a race track. Just the same, the western he was reading had its points of similarity with his own situation. Ted Schroeder would be his sawed-off sidekick, of course, and they sure would put those varmints to rout, just like in the book...
Lesson No. 2. Some Australians had thought that last December's steamy, 100° Melbourne weather would melt the starch right out of the challenging U.S. Davis Cup stars, Kramer & Schroeder. The starch oozed out of the Australians instead. They lost five straight matches (and the cup). But instead of acting crushed, the Australians got a gleam in their eye. Sir Norman Brookes, boss of the Australian Lawn Tennis Association and onetime Wimbledon champion, issued a communiqué: "The aggressive type of tennis played by your men should have a great influence on our future stars...
...tempered, 150-lb. Ted Schroeder, who is Jake's best friend and No. 2 man on the U.S. Davis Cup team, has it too 8#151;but not the way Jake has. They are both the same age (Schroeder is eleven days older), both products of California's humming tennis factory. Kramer's eight-month-old son is named for .Ted, and Schroeder calls his baby boy Little John...
...Look, Brother . . ." Unlike his easygoing partner, Ted Schroeder is apt to be moody, quick to fly off the handle. Once, on an impulse, he wrote a blistering letter to good-natured Alrick Man (non-playing captain of this year's Davis Cup team); as soon as he cooled off, Ted was on the long-distance phone saying, "I just wrote you a letter . . . don't open it." Another time, he was about to pull into the driveway of his new home at La Crescenta, Calif, when a car whizzed by at terrific speed. Schroeder tore after it, forced...
Moscow's telephone operators learned one way to talk to Molotov: pick up a phone in Iowa, U.S.A., and call him up. Jovial Smoky Schroeder, a 200-pound Iowa railway fireman, gave more details...