Evening star., 1951-06-24
SedgmaIl and Drobny
Picked for Top Spots;
Larsen Seeded No. ;
BY tho Associated Press

Larsen Seeded No. 3 |
BY tho Associated Press
LONDON. June 23.-The ALI
England Championships at VIM
bledon-the most important I'M
amateur tennis "Opens their two
week run Monday with one Of the
most glittering arrays Of talent
ever assembled.
The lineup includes all Of last
years Wimbledon champions plus
the mems and women's title
holders from the three inter-
national tournaments which ten
mis- experts usually bracket right
behind this big one-the Ameri-|
can, French and Australian Ma
tional championships.
Bolstering this impressive list
are the No. players from every
European country west Of the
Iron Curtain, the top player from
Communist Hungary, Poland's No.
] star who recently fed west to
freedom, the entire Canadian
Davis Cup team. the No. players
from Argentina and Brazil, and
the three men chosen to defend
the Davis Cup for Australia.
(The Wimbledon matches will
be broadcast in Washington by
radio station VOL each day
from $50 to GAS pm. Addi-
tional coverage is planned for
the final two days of play)
Sedgeman Seeded No. /.
From this list the Wimbledon
Tournament Committee selected
10 men and eight women for
seeded spots supposedly the
easiest path to the coveted titles.
Frank Sedgman. Australia's topI
player. was seeded No /, just like
last year. although he doesn't own
q major tournament title.
Jaroslav Drobny, the self-ex-
fled Czech who has been trying
for the wimbledon crown more
years than he likes to remember,
got No. 2. then in order came:
3-Art Larsen of San Leandro,
Calf. the American singles title
holder: 4-Budge Patty of Los
Angeles, last years Wimbledon
champion who was denoted be-
cause he's been nursing an injured
ankle; 5-Herb Flam of Beverly
Hills, the second ranking Ameri-
can player; 6-Dick Savitt of
Orange, N. j., the surprise winner
of the Australian title in January; |.
ken McGregor of Australia,
the man Savitt beat for his crown:
8-Eric Sturgess of South Africa: Il
9-Gardner Mulloy of Miami. Fla. |.
and 10-Lennart Bergolin of
Sweden who won two Davis Cup 4
singles matches from the Aussies
last year.
U. S. Women Top-Seeded. /.
When the Tournament Com
mittee got to the women's singles
seedlings, they just about settled
for the American rankings list,
with few minor changes in their
estimates of form. The only nom
American to crash the list was
Mrs. Jean Walker Smith of Eng
land who edged into the spot
ahead of Barbara Scofield David
son of San Francisco.
For the record. this is the
Women's list:
Louise Brough of Beverly Hills,
the defending champion; 2, Mrs.
Margaret Osborne Dupont of Will
mington, Del, the American
champion: 8, Doris Hart of Coral
Gables. Fla, the second ranking
American player; 4, Shirley Fry of
Akron, Ohio, the new champion of
France; S. Beverly Baker of Santa
Monica, Calf: 6, Nancy Chaffee
of Los. Angeles and Mrs. Walker
Smith.
Mrs. Patricia Todd of La Jolla,
Calf, had been seeded sixth, but
withdrew yesterday. A Dutch girl,
Miss M. r. Couquergue, who was
eliminated in the qualifying
tournament, will be brought in to
replace her on the entry list.
In the unseeded ranks, the
United States has Mrs. Barbara
S. Davidson of San Francisco,
Althea Gibson of New York, the
American Negro champion and
the first of her race from the
United States to play at Wimble-
don; Betty Rosenquest of South
Orange, N. j. Arvilla MCGUIRE of
Piedmont, Calf. and Mrs. Rita
Anderson of Hollywood.
The American men, besides the
seeded players. are Hal Burrows
of Charlottesville. Va, Straight
Clark, Pasadena. Calf, and Gene
Garritt. San Diego. Calf, and
Hamilton Richardson, B IA to n
Rouge, La, American junior
champion.
Drobny to Meet Won Cramm.
The top match of the first
round Monday undoubtedly will be
Drobny against 42-year-old Gott-
fried Won Cramm of Germany.
Won Cramm got to the Wimble-
don finals three times before the
war. This is his first return since
1889. He is still a winner, as he
has shown in nursing the So-soI
German team to the semifinals of
the European zone of the Davis
Cup. He has played and beaten
Drobny since the war.
A close second-fiddle to the
Drobny-Von Cramm battle will be
the tangle between Larsen and
Mervyn Rose, No. 3 player of the
Australian Davis Cup team.
AS is the Wimbledon habit, the
first and second seeded men have
been given the biggest assortment
of class talent in their quarters
of the draw.
Between Sedgman and the
semifinals, if form remains un-