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...doubles next day, the U.S. veteran (32) Bill Talbert and young (20) Tony Trabert, unbeaten over a two-year span, made short work (67 min.) of the Japanese pair of Nakano and Goro Fujikura. After breezing through the first two, 6-0, 6-2, the U.S. pair ran into trouble, trailed 1-4 in the third set, but finally...
...final matches were just a formality. In stifling heat (three spectators collapsed), Trabert beat Nakano, 6-4, 7-5, 6-0; Savitt beat Kumamaru, 6-4, 6-2, 3-6, 6-1. Though the Japanese did not distinguish themselves on the slow courts at Louisville, U.S. tennis fans will get a chance to see their stubborn base-line play on the faster grass of the tennis circuit (Southampton, Orange, Newport and the Nationals at Longwood and Forest Hills). And Ichy is looking ahead. He figures that in another couple of years the younger Japanese players will...
...Heavyweight Rocky Marciano, his 36th straight victory, over clumsy Rex Layne, with a crushing sixth-round knockout; in New York. Marciano's showing put him in line to take on the winner of September's heavyweight championship fight between Ezzard Charles and Joe Louis. ¶Tony Trabert, the National clay court tennis title, in an upset over U.S. Champion Art Larsen, 6-8, 2-6, 6-4, 6-3, 8-6; in Chicago. ¶ Victor Seixas, the Spring Lake invitation tennis tournament, over Bill Talbert, 6-2, 6-3, 6-3; in Spring Lake...
...Others picked for the eleven-man squad: Victor Seixas, Herbert Flam, Arthur Larsen, Richard Savitt, Sam Match and Tony Trabert...
...Chicago, Ted's powerful game was still erratic-now a siege gun, now a popgun. In the semifinals this week, he won a quick victory over Tony Trabert. But he wobbled next day in the final, and Herbie Flam took the title in straight sets, 6-1, 6-2, 6-2. With Pancho Gonzales turned pro, Ted Schroeder off his game, and the Aussies due next month, the U.S.'s Davis Cup pickers were a gloomy...