Evening star., 1954-01-08

football bowls don't know what happened in Phily All
know that we've got the five best tennis players in the
world If people want to good tennis Jack Kramer will
give it to them If not OGara shrugged elaborately
to finish the sentence
PROMOTER KRAMER, perhaps the best tennis player
in the world when he whips himself into condition.
playing only While confines himself
appearances doubles players person
ally has licked in previous tours This does include
Bulge, who beaten by Bobby Riggs in earlier year
when Riggs and not Kramer No promoter in the
tennis field.
This is somewhat of a switch because in bygone days.
when featured player beaten the circuit, he
almost automatically eliminated But Kramer big
Pancho Gonzales whom he handled few Frank
Sedgman whom he licked last year; Pancho Segura
his fifth but quite the best Budge
king of all tennis but SO years old.
Everybody ought to be able to KramerS point"
Oara saying He's the best but he's getting ready
retire When Sedgman beaten last year. he only 25
When Gonzales beaten he only 81 Kramer thinks
that neither at his peak at the time He could have
something there Anyway I'll stick with Jack It's better
than being wrong"
1T COULD BE THAT Kramer is suffering from the
face which normally is the foundation of
pro the belonged to Sedgman and
his Australian Ken McGregor For spell, Sedgman
interesting Kramer then playing oppo
site him in the top singles match but little Segura murdered
McGregor He beat McGregor regularly that Ken
dropped and is writing tennis articles in Australia
People have Gonzales, big raw-boned Mexican
from California who National champion in 1949 1t is
possible however, that he turned too early although
money handy at almost But Pancho didn't
have the polished to compete with Kramer and so he
dropped out of sight They say he's much better now
Segura of course. lis old hat Possibly he's the most
coorfu member of the troupe, what with his two1sted
swipes tendency play Hamlet in Ecuadorean when
the occasion suits.
his heyday Bulge have been better than Kramer
But at 38, dim of Donald taken by New York
critics. don't think Bulge fast enough to beat
any of his fellow travellers
FOR FACT, DON hasn't looked too good" OGara was
saying in top physical condition but his shots are
rusty He got lousy press in New York and it made him
Somebody wrote, and quote: 1T became painfully
obvious Budges two starts that the oncegreat
star longer
well, why go on? Shucks, he always started slowly.
got of the Army in 1946tha eight years
ago-he his first IL matches to Bobby Riggs and yet
barely entire "a to o. He play
Kramer, will 81 right that Bulge is
among all the active players in the world
pro- That's for twoou- -of-three match and
includes Rosewall Hoad Seixas, Trabert and the rest
Until this season. the have been working mostly
either percentage straight salary Segura is
supposed only $4,000 last playing for
much week. beating the brains out of McCrego who
was on percentage basis Davis Cup exploits and
who reputedly collected $4,000.
This year it's different It's Kramers notion that sep
shoot for big in prize in New York
Philadelphia in Washington and Chicago, and
$500 smaller centers, is a better arrangement.
Jack there's been too much talk OF players going
through motions and he set this socalled COM
petitive tournament DEAL" OGara explained Frankly
it, AS far I'm concerned they played just as
hard under the old system as they're playing now."