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...Australia, the Sydney Daily Mirror headlined a tennis reversal: TRABERT PULVERIZES LEW HOAD. The U.S.'s Tony Trabert, bouncing back from his five-set Davis Cup loss to Hoad, whipped the youngster, 6-4, 6-2, 6-2, for the South Australian tennis title. Said Hoad: "I've had tennis for the moment." ¶ In Cincinnati, meeting at the N.C.A.A. convention, the unofficial Ivy League finally made it official. Beginning in 1956, the Ivies-Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Princeton and Yale-will meet one another in football on a round-robin basis for a regular conference...
...bolster the youngsters' confidence, foxy Coach Harry Hopman predicted a 4-1 victory. U.S. Davis Cup Captain Billy Talbert, flanked by veteran (30) Wimbledon Champion Vic Seixas and young (23) U.S. Champion Tony Trabert, also figured the final score would be 4-1-for the U.S. As it turned out, both predictions were wrong, but canny Harry Hopman proved to be the better guesser...
After a day of play, the matches stood at one-all. Hoad, who had lost to Seixas six straight times, this time beat Seixas in straight sets. Trabert provided the equalizer, also in straight sets, against Rosewall. For the all-important doubles match, the Aussie selectors broke up the Hoad-Rosewall combination and lost a match that even U.S. Captain Talbert had conceded to Australia. With their team 1-2 behind, the Aussies switched from optimism to bleak pessimism. Only twice in the 54-year history of the Davis Cup had a team managed to overcome such a deficit. Particularly...
...fourth match, Hoad faced Trabert on a soggy, rainswept court. "It was," said former Australian Champion Jack Crawford afterward, "the greatest tennis I have ever seen anywhere in the world." It was a battle of slam-bang serves, whistling forehands and slashing backhands by. the two hardest hitters in amateur tennis today. And when it was over, young Hoad had squared matters at two-all after a three-hour battle...
...clincher was an anticlimax. It was up to Seixas, but Seixas was not up to it. Rosewall won in four sets, and the venerable cup was put away Down Under for the fourth straight year. Seixas implied that he would not return for another try. but Tony Trabert, who had won eight of eleven sets from the youngsters, denied rumors, that he would turn pro and vowed he would be back next year. Grinning, Trabert brought a big roar from the 17,500 Aussies packed into Kooyong Stadium when he said: "I've been playing tennis since...