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...This will be the wide-open Open," announced Billy Talbert, director of the U.S. Open Tennis Championships at Forest Hills, N.Y. If he sounded like a carny barker trying to hypo the gate, it was understandable. Partly because of the wearying pro v. amateur power struggle that has long plagued tennis, six of the top professionals -Rod Laver, Ken Rosewall, Roy Emerson, Fred Stolle, Cliff Drysdale and Andres Gimeno-declined to enter the tournament. Margaret Court Smith, the defending women's champion, could not come because she is pregnant. Wimbledon Champ Evonne Goolagong, the 20-year-old Australian aborigine...
Loring and Barnett were beaten in the "B" semi-finals by Pike Talbert, and Warner of Williams-who later won the division. Briggs and Brock defeated Glen Bicknell and John Ahearn of Amherst, 6-2, 6-3, to take the "C" division doubles title...
Fish lost 6-2, 6-4 to Pike Talbert, but the bottom four all gained easy victories in straight sets. Joe Cavanagh was particularly impressive at number three, winning...
...Pike Talbert, son of Davis Cup captain Bill Talbert, and Chris Warner play one and two in singles and make up the second doubles team. The first doubles team is composed of two nationally ranked squash players, Ty Griffin and Dave Johnson, second and ninth respectively in the college Nationals this winter...
...addition to this, Houston Nickel Kicks is worth owning just for the truly tough cover picture of Talbert leaning against a Williams' Apollo pinball machine, which pinball connoisseurs will recognize as a classic. Both this and the Boz Scaggs album have frequently turned up for two dollars at certain Harvard Square record stores, making it even more imperative that you rush out and buy them right away...