THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1959.
Concluding Article Of The Series On Wimbledon's Top Singles Challengers
WIMBLEDON FAVOURITES
ANGELA MORTIMER HAS ALL THE
COURAGE, TENACITY AND CONSISTENCY TO WIN THE TITLE
By JOHN COTTRELL
£5,000 Separatès Cooper From World Title Fight
By HARRY CARPENTER
lawn A little matter of about £5,000 stands between Henry Cooper and a world heavyweight cham- pionship fight.'
After 21 lean years the golden dream of British
tennis fans is nearing reality. For the first time since
Jedrzejowska Dorothy Round bout Jadwiga
in 1938, there is real hope that a British player will win a Wimbledon singles titlo.
Britain's women players have ended the United States' 28-year monopoly of the Wightman Cup. They have been mopping up titles all over the Continent.
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Wightman Cup More to the point, they are no| 10.30 routine. Social
No. 1. In their
a fantastic had to be limited to match she made Jonger threatened by Harlem's ments
Miss Althen | official tennis functions.
come-back to win 0-4. 1-0, 7-5 tigress of tennis,
the Gibson, who is
But this life of austerity after being 2-1 down In now ling high notes in night clubs lastend sulled the penches-and-Devon-
k{kt sol shire-cream lave. of shattering, Beltista dreams on
Within a few months the furnous Centre Court.
she had won her first tournament. In 1951. her third
Number One Hope year of first-class tennis, she
Who is the British girl mast kely tu seize this golden op-
win portunity to
wide-open Wimbledon and Join the Centre Court Immortals?
Number One hope is top- ranking 18-year-old Chrisilne Truman, champion at France, Italy and Switzerland, the girl everyone I hailing 34 potential world-beater.
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Then there is Britain's No. 2 player, terrier-ilke Mr Shirley Brasher, and the third-ranking buxom A Haydon, a matural ball-player who also runks among the world's greatest table- tennis stars.
But, u choosing my British favorite 7 pays by the top three story and plumb for a tall, fole €171 frail-looking Kirt from
Devon-Miss Angela Mortimer, the most under-rated girl of postwar tennis,
Angela was the Last year "forgotten girl" of Britisit tennis
ignored by he
- unheralded,
Wightman Cup selectors,
unsung and un- Needed at the Wimbletion Championships,
Today she is remembered.... an the girl who docked the tennis world by blitzing her way to the Wimblion nai to cause the biggest upset siner unseeded Helen Jacobs reached the Anot in 1938.
Giant-Killer
Glant-killer Mortimer Тр malis fourth in the British rankings, but now no one but the British ranking coavnities ran seriously belleve she rates so low a position.
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the overhead and the power of Truman volleying strength of Bloomer and Haydon, But in terms of sheer courage, tenacity and consistency I rate her by far the greatest player in Britain today.
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And these are the qualities which bri
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slur through a feld of 88 Best-class players to capture the Wimble don ladlest singles championship. Courage is the outstanding quality of Angela Mortimer. Beneath her Appearance o! gentleness and trafity there Hes an astonishingly strong will and deep powers of concentration.
"Three years ago, shy, soft- spoken Angel was the No. 1 girl in British tennis, a position she had held for four years, Then, after a tour of the Middle Fast, she became seriously She had sious trouble and a stomach; complaint caused by a germ picked up in Calro. also suffered from Intermittent deafness.
Collapsed
She
Her tennis declined rapidly. She collapsed during the Bournemouth Hard Court Chpimplunships. She was forced "to retire from another tourna- ment after reaching the semi-
reached 12 singles finals and won eight.
In 1052 she won the Belgian Championship and became British Covered Court cham- pion, i tille she held for three years.
dan Wer
Her Record
That's the view of Jim Wicks, who manages the British and Empire champion, He says a Cooper-Floyd Patterson bout is on the cards for September in California.
The way Wicks puts it ist appears to be a soft touch, that's "Originally. I demanded when champions get beaten." £35,000 for 'Enery to nghi Patterson,
A Patterson-Cooper fight "Over there, they Oldn't means that either Joe Erskine want Cooper to have mora or Dick Richardson, the Welsh than £20,500. But now we heavyweights who are sche- seem to be getting together. duled to fight each other DI Fortheaw un June 24, wi!! have to walt for a crack Cooper's Utles.
Must Impress
their "They've upped
price to £20,000 and I've cropped mine to £33,000. A te more bargaining on either side-and the inatch is on.
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No British player can equal the postwar record of Angela Mortimer; no olher player mitch her consistency. victims have included
Negotiations are likely three Wimbledon champions coniu to head bameciately Miss Hari, Shirley Fry, and after June 25. On that date, in Althea Gibson (four times). Yankee Stadium, New York, At last year's Wimbledon, Patterson defends his work: 31 title against Sweden's Ingemar
In 1853 she won the Sean-blue-eyed Angela took dinavian Covered Court Chom- minutes to stride mio the ladles' Johansson. pionship and has since set # record by hokling it for five
ANGELA MORTIMER
years. In 1935 she won the Wim- biedon doubles with Anne Shil- cuck,
the French, as well as Egyptian
Pan-American championships.
and
Her victory in the Paris Anal was the first by a British gizi for 21 years. And in winning the premier hard court title she showed her tenacity by defeat ing the resolute American Dorothy Knode by the narrow atargin of 2-6, 7-5, 10-8,
That year she also became the Arst British player to beat Miss Duris Tim, thền the American
final, beating Susic Kormoczy. Cooper is seen as Patterson's then champion of France, 6-0, next opponent provided e (-1.
impresses in, beating Cuwir de. the South African Klerk, champion, at Leicester's Gran by talle on July 14.
I have never seen little Susie sa completely outplayed as she was on that occasion. Yet, in the final, Angeln herself was out- classed-8-0, 6-2, by Allhea Gibson, winner in 65 minutes.
It was a frustrating experience for plucky Miss Mortimer. Driv- ing with pace and deadly ac- curacy to the corners, she out- manoeuvred the champion time and me again, But, alas, sho never had the power to Anish a rally with a volley or a smash,
A contract-containing this proviso expected
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drawn up before July 12, the date on which a new chal- Jenger for Cooper's British and Empire titles is due be announced.
Easy Job?
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Stirling Moss Is In A Dilemma
Moss spoods raund the Silverstone course in the now Yanwall. The now
car is nine inches slimmer, 3/4 cwt lighter at 11-4 cwt, and has a mora powerful anging than the old Vanwall, doveloping over 300 brake horse power.
No
one is more favoured than Britain's Sirling Moss to win this year's world racing driver championship - If he can find a car to drive.
So last week he was down at Silverstone testing out the new Vanwall in a special culing arranged by millionaire car-builder Tony Vandervel. In the new car, ilekter, alecker, faster, he brat, the present Sliver- stone race lap record with a 1 min 30 sec (100 mph) lap; bui speed isn't everything.
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But for her weakness over-regards de Klerk, 23, who got
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tor easy, job peccable length and flue place- Cooper? Tent make her the must-feared "No," says Wicks. "I've told British player among foreign Enery that when you get what challengers,
Only Once Beaten
Can Angela really go further; at Wimbledon than the three British girls ranked above her? Of course, much will depend on the luck of the draw. Last year she met only one seeded player on her way to the anal.
even mora
But current form suggests that Miss Mortimer has fers ther sleeve for this yeur's Wimbledon,
She has been beaten only once since her Centre Court meeting with Miss Gibson fast July. She has taken the Bri Wish hard court title from the second
Shirley - ranking
She has repeatedly Brasher. overwhelmed third ranking Ann Haydon In the past year. And Christine Truman, 8.2 triple champion and top-ranking British girl with the fterrest forchand drive in women's Lennis?
Miss Mortimer has met her three times in the past year. And beaten her every
one.
Indians Face Big Score Against Lancashire
Manchester, June 21.
A third wicket stand of 187 by Geoff Puller who made 137 and Ken Grieves 95 had the 'Indian cricketers struggling against another big total today when they met Lancashire here.
At the close, Lancashire were || India's troubles might have been less had Kripal Singh beki
finals. She was dropped from 400 for five wickets. Tolling in first to fourth place in the the hot sun on a pitch of com a chance in. the slips off Bob national rankings. *
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For over a year she Lattira against iness Then, in 1957, she spent her life savings of £300 to recover her good health and tennis form in the Austrailan sunshine.
It was a shrewd investment. Five months later Angela Mor- timer was back,, sunburned and smiling-with the singles cham- plonship of Australia and four State titles.
She had
become the first player to win the Australian title
since Dorothy Round, in 1935.
fortable pace Old Trafford where the fourth Test will be played in a month's time, the indian bowlers seldom looked likely to make much headway especially against the wicket pair.
Test Prospect
third
Barber, Lancashire's acting cap- Over of the tain, in the first
chue came af match. The the bowling of Desal who kept up pace and life through much hard work but had no luck. Other chances were also missed.
Severe Punishment
Umrigar, who carried a deal
The lefthanded Pullar who of the seam bowling, figured in may well gat a chance for the dismissal of both opening England beform the season batemen. Не eaught Alon ends must have enhanced his Wharton at long-leg. at 47, and prospects.
then held a return catch He reached his_third_century. Darber at 33. Angela has always brought of the season in three hours 20 altogether batted this brand of courage to her minutes and tennis. She says:
"You murt Just under four hours and ult work hard at the game to suc-16 fours before skying a catch ceed. And I think you have to jeff Nadkarni. make sacrifices."
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The spin bowlers Muďdiah and Nadkarni, Kripal Singh And
never
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Ghorpade dangerous and camo In for sorvers
Dinishment when Grieves, on Australian, cut
Fallar and Grieves wero and drove forcefully besides
full cry.. She was 17 when she made defending soundly, Rarely did The sixth wicket pa'r. John up her mind to become a cham-the ball beat his
and bat of the Bond (60)
Brian Booth plon--a decision that meant no placid turf in his stay of just (20), also thrashed the bowling smoking, no drinking, nơ đone-over three hours. He hit one in putting on 50 for the un- ing and a no-nonsense, bed-at- live and 13 fours,
broken partnership......Router. -
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After last week's run, Moss, who hay, to decide what to drive in the French Grand Prix in three weeks time, said: "It was good to be back in a Vanwall. It was all very interesting. But want time to think. There were things I would have liked better."
Choice is really between the DAM and the
Vanwall for the fast, straight courses: for the many-cornered, twisty races, Moss will simost certabily choose the Cooper.
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