Evening star., 1962-09-07
DONNA FLOYD LONE AREA HOPE
Dell, Reed Latest Victims of Whiz Kids
Bya Star staff Writer

FOREST HILLS, N. Y, Sept.
TIT hardly seems to matter
anymore which Davis Cuppers
the United States sends I'D
against Rafael Osuna and An
tonic Palafox, those colorful
Mexican whiz kids. Old Uncle
Sam still comes up empty
handed.
.OSuna and Palafox, who
gave Mexico a 80 victory over
the United States in the mid
August Davis Cup matches,
showed here yesterday in the
82d National tennis champion
ships that they hadn't lost
their touch.
Their latest victims were
Whitney Reed of Alameda,
Caif.. and Donald Dell of Be-
thesda, Md, both of whom
missed a golden chance to say:
81 told you So" Although
originally named to the Davis
Cup team, neither was selected
to make the Mexico trip. Chuck
Mckinley, Jon Douglas and
Dennis Ralston played instead.
1t hardly mattered. Osuna,
fighting off four match points,
1tpped Reed, the United States
No. l-ranked player, lie,
ga, 3-6. 3-6, 1o--S, yester-
day in q three-hour match that
hardly could be surpassed for
excitement. Palafox caught
Dell with his service down and
prevailed, Ga, 81, 81.
Six U. S. Men Left
While the results may have
indicated the judgment of Bob
Kelleher. the Davis Cup cap
tain, they hardly helped the
United States sagging tennis
prestige. Going into today's
round Of 10. only six Americans
out Of the original entry of 90
are still around in the mems
bracket. And two more are
sure to fall since they play
fellow Americans today.
With Dell ousted, the Wash
ington areas lone representa-
I've now is Donna Floyd, the
q year old National Clay
Courts champion from Arling-
ton. On q day in which
Wimbledon Champion Karen
Hantze Susman was beaten,
Miss Floyd avenged q Wimble-
don loss by coming from behind
to clip Nancy Richey Of Dallas,
+6. 6-3, Us. (
1T was spotty tennis. but I
won," said the jubilant Miss
Floyd. who evened the match
ct q set apiece and then had {
to scramble to victory. There '
we're seven service breaks in \
the third set, before Miss Floyd I
applied the clincher at 15-40 I
ON q forehand drive deep to
the corner that Miss Richey t
couldn't return. S
Leslie Turner Next
Next on the charts for Miss c
Floyd Is Leslie Turner of Aus
tralia, the seventh-seed. who 9
eliminated Donna here last /
year. Ga. rs. {
with his first serve misfir- {
ing badly, Dell spent most Of ]
his time trying to come from t
behind. He trailed Palafox 5-1
In the first set, 2-1 on a serv- t
ice break in the second. and c
"a in the third. II was hitting q
my second service for three t
SETS" Dell summed it up, land I
I still nearly won two"
The road could end today for
Palafox, who draws top-seeded
Rod Laver Of Australia. Laver n
bumped off Bodo Nitsche of .
Germany, 81, 661, 6+1, yes n
terday and hasn't lost q set in d
three matches. The same is 4
true for Margaret Smith, the
top-seeded woman who made S
the quarter-f finals with a 6-3,
6--1 romp over Russia's Anna r
Dnitrieva. With second-seeded 1
Mrs. Susman out-a 60, 3-6,
6-3 victim Of teen-ager Vickey +
Palmer-Miss Smith is more
heavily favored than ever. I
The United States male con-
tingent is down now to Ham {
Richardson and Vic Seixas, who !
play each other today; Frank I
Froehling and Ron Holmberg, I
who also meet, plus Mckinley,
seeded No. 8, and unheralded
Andy Lloyd Of Shreveport, La, t,
who is ranked no better than
43d on the USLTA lists.
Richardson advanced yester-
day with a 6-3, 81, Ga VIC
tory over Wilhelm Bunkert Of
Germany while Seixas ouSted
Jan-Erik Lundquist Of Sweden,
Ga, 663, 6-3. Froehing de- ,
feated William Wright of Chey- :
enne. Wyo., 60, GA. 6-3;
Holmberg downed Norman ,
Perry of Los Angeles, 651,
Us, 60; Mckinley trounced
Wladislav Skonecki of Poland,
GA, ga, 6-1, and Lloyd
eliminated Tom Edlefson of :.