Evening star., 1946-06-30
Queen Sees Him Reach
QuarterfinaI Round;
i. ). Girls Advance
BY BILL MACKLIN

WIMBLEDON, June 29.-Califor-
MIA Tom Brown, who rolled through
Europe two summers ago pumping
mortar shells at the Nazis, had
wheeled impressively through the
first week of the all-England tennis
championships and tonight his one
man campaign had revived Ameri-
can hopes of winning all five
Wimbledon titles.
While Queen Mother Mary and
Prime Minister Attlee gazed from
the royal box, the 23-year-old San
Franciscan today ousted Tony
Mottram, Britain's last hope in the
mems singles, 6-1, 6-1, 6-3, and
wound up with seven others in the
quarter finals.
The victory left Brown alone to
carry on for the U. S. as his last
surviving teammate, Bulge Patty of
Los Angeles, fell before the all
around superior play of Dinny Pals,
Autralias S newest star, 6-2, 6-1, rs.
Through today's match the reti-
cent, unseeded Brown had dropped
only one set in a week of sparkling
play, and that to the fourth-seeded
Ecuadorian, Pancho Segura, whom
he upset two days ago. He had been
forced to a deuce set only once.
Brown Improves Steadily.
Against Mottram today he showed
steady improvement. His service
was more devastating and his back
hand, his best weapon, was steady
as a pendulum as he disposed OF
Mottram, who was a promising
Junior before the war. AS Brown
scored the final decisive point, he
earned a royal handicap from the
79-year old Queen Mother.
Browns quarter-final opponent
will be the Yugoslav Davis Cup ace.
Franja Puncec, who today disposed
of A. c. Van Swol of the Neither
lands. Should he survive that hur-
die, the Coast dark horse likely
would encounter the tourney favor
ite. Dinny Pals, in the semiflnal.
Pals is favored to beat Yvon Petra
of France in his quarter-flnal tussle.
Mrs. Patricia Canning Todd came
closest to supplying today's big
crowd with an upset when she
snatched an opening set from her
fellow Californian, third-seeded
Louise Brough, and carried her
favored opponent to deuce in the
second before tiring and losing out,
2-6, 81. 6-1.
After conceding Miss Brough a
40 lead in the second set, Mrs.
Todd fought back to deuce the set
at SIS, 6-6 and TT before her
strength was gone and she dropped
her service in the 18th game. After
that it was all over.
u. S. Girls Dominate Singles.
BY her hard-earned victory Miss
Brough joined four other seeded
American girls among the last l6I
in womens singles-Pauline Betz,
Dorothy Bundy, Doris Hart and
Margaret Osborne.
Miss Osborne required only %
minutes today to defeat Sue Pan
netier of France, 60, 60. Miss
Hart disposed of Mrs. R. C. Panton
of Britain. 6-1, Ga. Miss Betz and
Miss Bundy won their fourth round
matches yesterday.
The American contingent still was
entrenched in women's sim
giles, mems and Women's doubles
and mixed doubles. Jack Kramer
and Tom Brown, seeded No. 2
in mems doubles. have advanced
the second round.
The two-star American women's
doubles teams of Brough-Osborne
and Betz-Hart were the only COM
binations to reach the quarter-flnals
of that division this week. The
third seeded mixed doubles team of
Louise Brough and Tom Brown
smashed into the fourth round to-
day with a 60, 60, win over an
English pair, C. H. E. Belts and Mrs.
E. S. Law.
Miss Hart teamed with an English
partner, E. N. Hardwick, to defeat
C. j. Howell and Mrs. Roy McKelvie
of Britain, 60, GA, in the third
round of the mixed.