Evening star., 1953-06-28
Seixas and Larsen
Garry Singles Hopes
After MuIIoy Loses
BY the Asseeiotsd Press

~ "AS TSSSSsOIOo ENOSo
WIMBLEDON, England, June
27.-Old age and fast tennis
overlook 39-year-old Gardnar
Mulloy of Coral Gables. Fla, to-
day in the fourth round of the
Wimbledon championships.
Kurt Nelson, a 23-year-old,
happy-go-lucky player from CO.
penhagen. whipped the veteran
Florida lawyer 10-8, 6-3, rs.
Nielsen played the kind of
fast, ground-covering tennis that
made Mulloy's years weigh
heavy. The final point was a
clean service ace which Mulloy
could not reach in the boiling
sunshine.
But even with Mulloy's unex-
pected defeat, the United States
sent two men and five women
into the singles quarter-t1nals. |
which will be contested Monday.
Sunday is an off day because of |
British blue laws.
Seixas Wins Impressively
Vic SeixaS of Philadelphia, |
seeded second behind young Ken /
Rosewald, of Australia, gave an
impressive performance in ouSt- |
ing George Worthington, Au-
stralian-turned New Zealander,
10-8, IS, 6-3. The other
American survivor, lefty Art Lar
sen of San Delandro, Calf, ad-
vanced yesterday.
Maureen Little MOI Con- |
molly, the defending champion,
led a party of five Americans
into the round of eight in the
women'S singles division, win !
ming easily over Ann Shilcock of |
Great Britain, 60. 81.
Joining her were Doris Hart Of /
Coral Gables, Fla. seeded No. 2; |
Shirley Fry of Akron. Ohio. No. /
8; Mrs. Dorothy Head Knode of .
Alameda, Calf, No. 4, and un-
seeded Julie Sampson OF Pas
adena, Calf.
Jaroslav Drobny, the self
exiled Czech from Egypt, who
claims he is only 81. also sue
cumbed to the same old foes OF
big g-time tennis starS-age and
speed. But Drobny pulled his !
match out of the fire just in /
time to defeat Rex Hartwig, of
Australia, 6-3, IS, Is.
In the other main fourth
round match, Mervyn Rose, of
Australia, seeded No. 3. won from
Jacques Brichant, of Belgium,
Ga, Ga, 8-6.
MuIlOy Says He'll Be Back.
After his match. Mulloy was
slightly indignant at suggestion
that this might be his last VIM
bledon on grounds that 80 is a
very advanced age for a big
time player. i
Sure, I'm coming back to
Wimbledon next year. Some
day I'll get lucky and win this
thing" he said.
With mems seeded ranks drop
ping Mulloy. the women's corps
of favorites lost two members
Helen Fletcher of Britain and
Nelly Adamson of France.
Sixth-seeded Miss Fletcher lost
to Mrs. Suzsi Koermoczi of Hun
gary, 6-3, Ga, and Mrs. Adam
son bowed to Julie Sampson,
doubles partner of Miss Connolly,
H6. 6-3, 53.
Miss Hart, a former champion
who is considered the biggest
threat to Little Mo. swept past
Angelo Buxton, a young English
player, 6-3, 6I1. Third-Seeded
Miss Fry won from Mrs. Baba
Madden Lewis of Newtonville.
Mass. 6--1, 6-3. Mrs Knode
toppled Mrs. E. w. Dawson Scott
of Britain. 60. 81.
Top Doubles Team Wins.
Iii IIkSIl OOuU1C0 b1lC AL oV- !
ranked team of Lewis Hoad and
RoSeWall of Australia, moved into
the quarter finals with a 6-1.
Ga, 60 victory over Larsen
and Sven Davidson of Sweden.
Top-seeded Rosewall, sixth
seeded Hoad and seventh-seeded
Larsen were not scheduled for in
dividual matches today. They
won fourth-round singles yester-
day.
The quarter-f1n will be fea-
tured by Seixas-Hoad and Mel
sen -Rosewall matches. Other
quarter final matches to be
played early next week will be
Rose VS.. Larsen and Davidson vs.
Drobny.
Davidson won from Ian Ayre
of Australia early this afternoon.
6-3. Ga, Ga, to complete the
rout of Australia's S second team"
The first team" is made up of
Rosewall, Hoad and Rose.
Seixas' performance on the
center court was f1rst-clasS ten
mis-. One of his finest shots was a
down. -the-Sideline screamer. AS
If that weren't enough to leave
0rfhinptoy, Uo,1i,or ho follo,raI |