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...fourth year in a row Richard Alonzo ("Pancho") Gonzales, 27, demonstrated that he is the best tennis player in the world. In the finals of the world professional championships at Cleveland he whipped Ecuador's Pancho Segura (in table tennis scoring...
...tour's opening match Saturday, the ever-popular Pancho Segura had little trouble with newcomer Rex Hartwig, winning 8-4 in a Kramer set. Pancho's "automatic" two-handed forehand was as effective and colorful as ever, though his backhand was somewhat weak. He would frequently run as far as the doubles alley on the left side of the court to avoid hitting a backhand. Hartwig was disappointingly erratic. He seems easily the most dispensable of the crew. Segura has won sixteen matches, Hartwig five...
Spain's Pedro Cardinal Segura y Sáenz is a man born out of his time. In his pastoral letters he has longed for the days of the "meritorious Inquisition"; he has repeatedly attacked Franco's government for too much toleration of Protestants, and he has berated the citizens of his diocese, Seville, for such licentiousness as dancing and going to the movies. Last year the Vatican curbed him through the appointment of an archbishop coadjutor; shortly afterwards, a spate of anti-Vatican leaflets was rumored to have originated in the cardinal's palace itself...
...prove that they can get it by turning pro, Jack Kramer reels off names of some of the ex-amateurs who did well in the pro game in recent years. Pancho Segura: "He has a $30,000 home .. . and between $40,000 and $60,000 in a coffee can somewhere." Don Budge: "He has annuities, a long-term sporting goods contract, the management of two tennis clubs, not to mention a laundry, which he owns." Frank Sedgman: "He's worth $80,000 . . . a success story...
...Seville, an official inquiry began into the authorship and origin of the pamphlets. At week's end, hard-pressed old Cardinal Segura was quoted: "Not even the Civil Guards will get me out of my diocese...