The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-07-22
Chase Park Net Meet ShouDs Keen Action
Broken Arm Fails To Halt Young Falkenburg In East
Louise Broueh Hits Circuit With Sound Tennis Come
By LUTHER EVANS


 By LUTHER EVANS
 NEA Service Staff Correspondent
 New York, July 22-Two more rising California tennis players, Bob Falkenburg and Louise Brough, have brought talented racQuets east.
 Bobby F'alkenburg, national boys champion from Hollywood, swept to the Eastern boys crown at For- est Hills, though playing with q broken left arm.
 Miss Brough, national junior girls title holder from Beverly Hills. made her summer debut at Seahright, and the nations fern- mine aces are keeping wary eyes on her hard-hitting game.
 Skinny and IS, the Falkenburg lad, who was chriStened Bob and not Robert, can't understand the rumpus everyone kicked up about his annexing the Eastern boys tournament despite a heavy cast on his left arm.
 Whats Q broken arm as long as 1t isn't the one used to swing the racquet?" he asks.
 Broken bones are nothing new to young Falkenburg. At one time or another he has fractured his left shoulder, wrist and thumb. On the starboard side, only his thumb has been cracked, that when he was struck by an auto mobile.
 Falkenburg's first playing in vasion of the east appeared ended in St. Louis two weeks ago when he decided to 90 horse back ride ing. Everything was all right lr1- til the steed decided to attempt to jump a six-foot fence. Falkenburg decided to get off. He did, flush on his elbow, breaking 1t. YOUNG FALKENBURG PLAYS DAY AFTER BREAKING ARM ~
 But Falkenburg had waited too long for this journey to permit a little thing like a broken elbow to spoil 1t.
 The following afternoon he was on a court, learning to counter act the weight of the cast.
 Less than week after the nc. cident, Falkenburg and his 16- year-old brother, Tom, went as far as the semi-finals in the Penn Sylvarlia junior doubles.
 Even J. Donald Budge, the Davis Cupper who joined the profess Sionals, came out to Forest Hills for 6 glimpse of plucky Bobby Fall kenburg, who is 8 brother of Jinx Falkenburg, much photographed actress and model. Bobby didn't disappoint the red-head as he trimmed Henry Osten of Ptiladel- phia in the final, 7-5, 6-2.
 Falkenburg admits his broken arm bothers him on overland shots, the weight keeping him al- ways a bit off balance. He uses his broken arm to throw the ball up on service.
 Falkenburg, a brown-haired, 122- pound lad, defends his national title at Culver, Ind, Aug. 7-9.
 Bobby has a game that bellies his youthfulness. He isn't physic- ally capable of hitting as hard as some foes, so he outsteadies them. He is death at the net. comes in continually to volley his opponent out of position and pass him.
 Falkenburg comes from 8 ten- his family, but had no coaching. His mother held the women's sim gles championship of Brazil. Jinx Falkenburg boasts the women's championship of the movie colony. LOUISE BROUGH CAN'T SEE MISS BETZ AS CHAMPION
 Self-assured and IS, Miss Brough can't understand why everyone picks Pauline Betz the Rollins College girl who won the indoor title, to take over the women's singles throne at Forest Hills, Aug.
 T don't believe Pauline has chance against Helen Jacobs" as- serts Miss Brough, muddy blonde. Helen is too clever and too ex- perienced. And Pauline really has not shown much in major tourna- ments. Last year she played well until the nationals. Then 1t was different story"
 Ambitious Miss Brough doesn't count herself out.
 Twelfth-nanked among women, her game is improving steadily. She recently defeated Dorothy Bundy, ranked No. 4, in the Co., ronado, Calf, Invitational final. She won the Southern California championship at the expense of fifth-ranking Gracine Wheeler Kel- leher.
 Coached by Dick skeen, Bever- ly Hills professional, for all five years of her tennis career, Miss Brough's serve is one of the more difficult to handle among women racquet-wielders.
 Miss Brough will make the en- tire women's circuit = Easthamp- ton, Rye. Essex, the National Dou- bles at Longwood and Forest Hills. She will team with Helen Bern hard, eighth . ranking player, in doubles.
 As Miss Brough points out, she has nothing to lose.
 Everyone is supposed to be bet- ter than I am, so if don't win much this summer 1t won't be so bad" she smiles. T have plenty of time. and some day the ex- perience will help me win the nae tional women's."
 It's difficult not to agree with confident Louise Braifgh.