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...scores of each match for years-several theories are advanced on just how to beat Savitt. Bill Talbert, 32-year-old Davis Cup veteran and still a quick man on his feet (for three sets), says: "Make him run." Talbert's pal and protégé Tony Trabert, the 20-year-old sensation of the summer circuit, thinks the answer is: "Hit 'em harder." Gardnar Mulloy, a canny old hand at 37, says...
...have to worry about a lot of people. One year there might be 20 guys who, if they beat you, you don't feel bad. Last year there were about three for me. This year there's nobody." Dick's worries (in order): 1) Sedgman and Trabert; 2) Larsen, Flam and Talbert; 3) Patty and McGregor. Those seven, along with Savitt, make an imposing list of talent, but a list without standouts...
...Davis Cup Team, over Canada in five straight matches; in Montreal. After Dick Savitt and Tony Trabert won their singles matches in straight sets, Trabert and Budge Patty clinched the title with a 6-4, 6-3, 6-2 victory in the doubles. Next day Patty and Art Larsen took their singles to complete the shutout. Next stop: The interzone final matches against Sweden in Australia next December...
...coming Trabert, National Clay Court and Intercollegiate champion (TIME, July 23 et seq.), learned his lesson in less time-three straight sets. Tony, a blaster of driving shots from baseline and net, never could set himself against Talbert's well-placed drives and drop shots, and was constantly on the defensive-a phase of the game he does not understand. The score...
While Savitt and Trabert were taking their header at Orange, Art Larsen and Herb Flam sailed through their singles matches against the Mexican Davis Cup team at the Westchester Country Club in Rye, N.Y. Then the doubles team of Flam & Vic Seixas polished off Mexico's brother combination of Armando & Rolando Vega to put the U.S. into the American zone finals against Canada...