Evening star., 1950-07-02
Bromwich Defeated
DeeisiveIy by Seixas;
TaIbet Beats Quist
BY the Assoeiated Press

" RSsoCtuto0 ttoSS
WIMBLEDON, Eng, July L.
The Americans cut the heart of
the Australian challenge at VIM
bledon today. landing five play
ers in the final fight Of the mems
singles in the ALL England lawn
tennis championships.
Young Vic Seixas. former Uni
versity Of North Carolina star
from Philadelphia, led the star
spangled parade into the quarter
finals in perfect tennis weather as
he decisively ousted Jack Brom-
wich, Aussie veteran, with 6-1,
Us, E6, 63.
With Seixas came Billy Talbert
Of New York, who beat Australia's s
Adrian Quist, 6-3. 6-3. 60;
Gardner Mulloy of Miami, who
eliminated Billy Sidwell of Aus
tralia, GA. 6-3. rs: Art Lar
sen of San Leandro. Calf, and
Bulge Patty of Los Angeles.
Larsen and Patty took care of
the last two European contenders,
Jean-Claude Molinari of France
6-1, 6-3, 6-1, and Hans van
Swol of The Netherlands, 8-6.
Ga. 8-6.
KOvaleski Loses to Sedgman.
Only Fred Kovaleski of De-
troit dropped out. He lost to top
seeded Frank Sedgman of Aus
traila in straight sets. but he
wasn't desgraced. Both men
played well. However. Sedgman.
now recovered from an ailing wrist
that hampered him earlier in
the week, held command with an
almost perfect net game. The
scores were 6-3, 6-3, Ga.
Because of Sunday blue laws the !
players will rest tomorrow.
Australia. which sent a half
dozen stalwarts into battle today,
lost all but Sedgman. In addi-
tion to the damage inflicted by the
Americans. Jaroslav Drobny, the
self exiled Czech, eliminated
young Ken McGregor. 6-3, 50,
rs, and Eric Sturgess of South
Africa whipped Geoff Brown. a |
flnalist here four years ago, 60,
3-6, 6-3. Ga.
The days action set up these |
quarter final matches for Mon
day: Sedgman VS.. Larsen; Drob-
ny VS.. Mulloy: Seixas VS.. Stur-
CESS and Patty VS.. Talbert.
The huge crowd of almost 30,-
900 saw the best tennis of the
week in the eight singles matches
but the Seixas-Bromwich duel
was tops for the afternoon.
Bronawich, who got as far as
the finals here in 1948, opened
by winning his own service and
then the tall American swept
through eight straight games
a streak from which the veteran
never fully recovered.
Drobny Remains Threat. II
Although Sedgman handled
Kovaleski with comparative ease,
he doesn't look the biggest re-
manning threat to American sue
cess. The villain from the Amer
ican viewpoint is apt to be Drobny.
q well-built lefthander with a
service that just can't be touched
II it's working right.
It definitely was right today for
Drobny against McGregor.
Mulloy eased past Sidwell and
could have made the margin big
ger. He let his service establish
superiority early in the first set
and he never was in danger.
The blond left-handed Larsen,
seeded No. Z, put in the quickest
work Of the day as he beat Mol
mari, q 20-year-old Frenchman,
in As minutes. He won the last
IL points in a row to take the final
set.
Talbert. the No. seeded player,
and Quist put on a relaxing dis
play of "old mans tennis" and
Talbert beat the Australian vet
eran at his own game. Although
he toned down his service, Talbert
kept his brilliant collection of
ground strokes and they were far
better than anything Quist could
produce.
Keep Spectators In Uproar.
Patty, who likes to play the
clown, met another man who
keeps both eyes on the. crowd
Van Swol of Holland-and the
pair kept their spectators in an
uproar as Patty won.
In the only two women's
singles matches of the day Doris
Hart Of Jacksonville, Fla, seeded
No. 3, and Mrs. Pat Todd of La
Jolla, Calf, seeded No. 4, both
advanced to the quarter finals
with easy victories. Miss Hart's
came at the expense of Nancy
Chaffee of Ventura, Calf, 60,
So, and left eight American wof1-
en- among the Il survivors. Mrs.
Todd defeated Mrs. Roy McKelvie
Of England, 6-1. Ga.