Evening star., 1947-08-19
YoungstersMaySpring
Upsets in National Net
Doubles Tournament
By the Associated Press

BROOKLTNE, Mass, Aug. 49,
Although the top-ranking teams in
the mems division of the 66th ma
tional doubles tennis tournament,
with one exception, took matters in
easy stride during the opening round,
there appeared to be several pairs
of eager and ambitious youngsters
capable of upsetting some apple
carts today at Longwood.
During the first round action, the
male contingent suffered the only
setback that bore some slight re-
semblance to an upset. That was
registered when Frances Raoul Alb
desselam and Bernard Destremau
stubbornly battled for 3-6, 1910,
6-1, 81, 60 win that knocked
Reggie Mckenzie of New Zealand
and Torsten Johanssor1 of Sweden,
the last of the three seeded foreign
teams, out of the title contention in
their opening engagement.
Easy for Favored Pairs.
Such domestic favorites as Jack
Kramer of Los Angeles and Ted
Schroeder of Glendale, Calf, and
Gardnar Mulloy of Coral Gables,
and Frank Parker Of Los Angeles,
had. easy first-round assignments.
But the former pair, the United
States Davis Cup teams No. l and 2
performers, can expect much sitter
competition today from India's
Sument c. Misra and Janished M.
Mehtra.
And Mulloy, who shared in the
national team titles with Bill Tai
bert of Wilmington, Del, for the
third time a year ago, and Parker,
now playing together in only their
third tournament, today draw a
most stubborn pair of second round
rivals in Bernard Bartzen of San
Angelo, Tex, and George Larned of
Chicago.
Talbert now Is teamed with Bill
Sidweil of Australia, and the fact
that they have been third seeded
probably means little to their second
round opponents, Earl Cochell of
New York, and Sam Match of San
Francisco, pair Of youths who have
been forging to the tennis peaks
with rapid strides.
Australia's crack pair of teams,
Jack Bromwich and Colin Long and
Geoff Brown and Dinny Pals, also
have been called upon to contend
with tireless young rivals this af-
ternoon. Bromwich and Long, who
are expected to compete in the Davis
Cup challenge round doubles against
the defending United States team,
drew Buddy Behrens of Fort Lau-
derdale, Fla, and Dick Mouledous
of New Orleans, while Brown and
Pals were being paired against Hal
Burrows of Charlottesville, Va, and
Ken Mccarthy of Fresno, Calf.
Only 20 Women's Teams.
With only 20 teams entered in
the women's section, four matches
were enough to reduce the field to
its second-round quota. And most
surprising of those first-round re-
suits was the 46, 60, 81 setback
suffered by England's unsuccessful
Wightman Cup team aces, Mrs.
Jean Bostock and Mrs. Betty Hill
ton, against the inspired play of
Mrs. Marjorie Gladman Buck of
New York, and Mrs. Magda Rurac
of Romania, a well seasoned but
unseeded tandem.
Mrs. Rurac's husband Vimi, how
ever, was one of the opening days
victims. He was teamed with Man
Mohan of India and they were
wiped out in bang fashion by
Australians Brown and Pals, 60,
6-3, Go, in their initial start.
Form was needed with marked
respect in the men veterans singles
opening round and today the As
year-oldsters and up will launch
their doubles titles campaigns. The
bulky father r-son field also was re-
duced to its second stage without
an unset.