Word: wimbledon
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...Wimbledon last week, it was beginning to look like the year of the crocodile. Germany's Gottfried von Cramm, no crocodile but still a masterly all-court player at 42, could even now take the starch out of youngsters who could hardly lift a racket in the days when Von Cramm was a Wimbledon finalist three years running...
FRANK SEDGMAN, 23, seeded No. 1 at Wimbledon this year, the stocky two-time Australian champion and Davis Cup mainstay, whose siege-gun game, when he is "up," is probably the amateur world's best...
...first round of Wimbledon got under way this week, the austere ways of the nondrinking, nonsmoking, in-bed-by-11 Australians prompted one U.S. player to call them "too damned earnest." But even Patty and Larsen were buckling down with the other seven U.S. entries to the routine of roadwork and practice they will need if they hope to get past the wise old crocodiles...
...sentimental obsession about losing well and changed over to the psychology of winning well?" Baxter demanded. "Let our cricketers decide now that when the Australians come to England they shall be pounded into submission . . . Our lawn tennis players might decide now to win three sets instead of one at Wimbledon . . . Our Walker Cup golfers could will themselves into believing that even a 15-yard putt will go in if the ball is correctly directed to the hole...
...before dinner, and may sip champagne afterward. With both daughters married, he and his slender, attractive wife Faye live pretty much by themselves. Winters they spend in their Spanish villa near Florida's Boca Raton Club, where Rentschler plays tennis well enough to take on ex-Wimbledon Champion Fred Perry. He travels back & forth to East Hartford-as well as everywhere else-by plane. Even in the roughest weather, Rentschler merely grunts to his pilot, "Getting a bit dusty outside," then resumes reading memos about engines. Money in the Bank. Fred Rentschler was taught to be single-minded...