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National League enjoys slight edge in today's All-Star baseball game.

Kansas City, July 10, The National League leaned toward Bob Friend or Vern Law of the league-leading Pittsburgh Pirates to start Monday's 28th All-Star baseball game Municipal Stadium.

The American League | listed three right-handers Cleveland's Gary Bell, Bos- tons Bill Monboquette and Baltimore's Chuck Estrade -85 possible starting pitchers for the first of the two 1960 games.

A sellout crowd of 30,611 is expected to jam the Athletics* park for Kansas City's first taste of Major League All-Star play.

Manager Walt Alston, busy bossing his Los Angeles Dodgers at home against St Louis, sent word that he was thinking of starting Friend or Law. are righthanders,

Friend

(10-5)

Both

whipped Philadelphia on Friday night, Law (11-4) was beaten 2-1 by Philadelphia on Saturday night, Alston also had well rested Bob Buhl of Milwaukee (B-3) and Larry Jackson of St Louis [10-8).

Other starting pitchers on the National League side included Mike McCormick of Son Francisco, Johnny Podres and Stan Williams of Los Angeles.

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Manager Al Lopez, piloting his Chicago White Sox against Cleveland in a doubleheader al Comiskey Park, sent word that Bell (7-7), Monboquette (8-7) and Estrada (9-5) were being considered. He wouldn't make a final choice until Monday morning.

With the handy left flek fence only. 330 feet away from

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THE CHINA - MAIL MONDAY, JULY 11, 1960.

WIMBLEDON REVIEW

World's top tennis ⠀

show needs

the professionals now

By JOHN COTTRELL

Everything seemed to be happening for the first time Wat the 74th Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Champion-

ships.

For the first time an Indian (Ramanathan Krishnan)

and an Italian (Nicole Pietrangeli) reached the semi-finals of the men's singles. For the first time a South African (Sandra Reynolds) qualified for the final of the ladies singles.

For the first time we had a Mexican champion (Rafael Osuna), a men's singles final between two left-handers, and a men's doubles final between two unseeded pairs.

For the first time since the war a British partnership played in the men's doubles final. And for the first time since the Championships moved to the present Church Road site in 1922, not one American reached the semi-finals of either singles events;

What does it all

Does this

meant

they rarely played any

better

EARL BUCHHOLZ. his play promises that the US will come back with a vengeance in 'future years.

-WIMBLEDON DEFEAT AVENGED

India's Krishnan beats

Fraser after

a two-hour battle

Ramanathan Krishnan of Ind

his

Wimbledon semi-final defeat when he scored a shock 6-3, 1-6, 6-1, 3-6, 6-4 victory over Wimble don champion Neale Eraser of Australia in the semi-finals of the Swedish International Tennis- Tournament here today,

Krishnan and Fruser fought | Australien found. difficulty in a two-hour-en-minute see-saw timing his shots of the hard battle before 3,500, fans in the surface here though his service Stands, around "the hard' court, ]was at its customary peak; }

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«Lei Pericoll of Italy, won the women's singles "Bari, berting her compatriot Savana Lazzarino 3-6, 7-56;2

Weak service Fraser dealt comfortably with Krishnan's service one of the weakest in top, flight, tennis

In a quarter-final of the mixed but the Indian won through doubles, Torsten Johansson and with some fine stop volleys and Gudrun Rosin of Sweden beat mighty smasher, all wh Adrian Quist, Asstralia and Following his successful cam-MISA MAkogren, Sweden, [paign on grass counts, the 6-0, 7-B-UPLE P

Angeles and studies at the|nia, But until she plays her University of Southern Call-ground strokes with finde con- tarnia.

fro she cannot quite rank with unforgettable quarterfinal Bobby Wilson and Mike Davies the all-time greats of the game where he somehow contrived to of Britain amized everyone, in- | Buzanne Lenglen, Helen's Wills. save five match points and sur-cluding themselves, by reaching Mobdy, Maureen Connolly, and vived only when Bar "Butch" the men's doubles final But Louise Brough victory by a twisted ankle and success and avere fortunate to Buchholz was cruelly robbed of they are rather flattered by this

cramp.

first round 'match What was wrong with Fraser's against an unimpressive German

ed him. The explanation was simpler he was pot throwing up the ball high enough.

А survive

Greatest stylist

Disappointing

Before Wimbledon, nilai- pated a thrilling ten-day tourna-

promised to be higher than ever, before.

sound the death than last year and sometimes I Play? His greatest weapon, the pair after being 1-5 down in the ment since the over-Bil standard. MARIA BUENO

one star player who

knell for the United States a thought that Krishnan played a big first service, completely fail-final set. even higher emerged from Wimbledon with an

one of the two greatest tennis | little worse. reputation,

powers? Does it signify the Barry Mackay, Rod Laver, emergence of great new, abaru 2

Neale Fraser and Darlene Hard these are the out standing players who did not really do themselves Justice si Wimbledon.

of

could match the power Chicago's Ernie Banks, Milwer- kee's Hank Aaron and Eddle Matthews and San Francisco's Willie Mays with New York's Roger Marls, Mickey Mantle, All Showron and Yogi Berra but fell off after that.AP.

the plate, neither manager wa Former England

anxious to pitch a lafly against the right-handed power of the opposition

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American

cricketer dies

Northampton, July 9,

Although the League held a 16-11 edge in V. W. C. Jupp, the former this series, dating back to 1933, England and Northamptonshire the power-londe starting line and Sussex cricketer collapsed ug of the National League and died in the garden of his appeared to give Alston's crew home near here today. He was an edge. The American League | 69.-China Mail Special,

Russia wins

European

in Europe, Asia, South Afric and South America?

It would be pleasing to report that many countries are produc ing stars to match the strength of Australians and Americans, that first-class tenhis is rapidly

Nations Cup developing all over the world.

Paris, July 10, the first

Yugoslavia in the final by two You one at the Pare Des Prince's Stadium here tonight.

Russia on beating

The half-time score was 1-0 in favour of the Yugaslavs

The result after 90 minutes of play was 11 and the Russians scored the winning goal during the 30 minutes extra time.-UPL

Lower standard

It stresses what is so often concealed by

their say -stroke-play: that even the best players in the world are only moetal and can meet the fundamental problems of pabile parks player, t

The difference

The difference is that the

All of them, at some stage, gave a sub-standard perform- anice and in the case of Mackay: and Miss Hard it proved fatal. The chubby California girl whe the most erratic of all the stars great, stars have the know-how Alas, this is only partly true.and she can rarely have, made to analyse their game and cor- While the game is growing in more errors than in her quarter-rect the errors themselves, After that poor quarter-final, many countries, the unprece Bral meeting with Miss Rey-Fraser worked for a whole after dented success of some players nolds at Wimbledon can be explained only by the lower standard of established stars. Forsey Pas Players like Pietrangell, Krishan and Miss Reynolds did better than ever before at Wim- bledon, But, to be qui tank,

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By Mik

By Ernie Buhriller

NANCY

WHY ARE YOU MAD. AT NANCY?

SHE SAID

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WHAT DOES

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Southpaw Laver frured in an appalling semi-final which pro- vided nearly two hours and 55 games of dull, dreary play to match the grey, "chilly weather Fraser's bad peto came in the

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noon on his service with Bob Mark and even lowered the ten- sion of his racket in an effort to gain better control.

In this way, Fraser showed that the Australian, L.T.A. were absolutely justified In allowing him to tour overseas in a private capacity. After six Wimble dons they felt that he was mature and experienced enough to travel alone and that he might even do better without the restrictions of team discipline.

How right they were. Once Fraser struck top forin with his big serve and he has also developed an equally lethal | high-kicking_second serve whileh

he can turn either way he was. in a class of his own and fully deserved the title.

Why wore these stars some». times below form? Once again

·Jack Kramer must be partly held responsible. He has sign- -ed ́up" only, one · sfar (Alex Olmedo) since 1959 Wimble- don, but without match experience against the world's best players, the top- amateurs are clearly, having difficulty: -in' raising

their gemid higher...

MY

They find that sub-standard play will sunkce in many matches and once having relaxed · It is not easy to tighten one's game suddenly for the big occasion

Stale

Some of these globe-trotting amateurs looked stale, Fraser was also handicapped by an easy draw in the early rounds which meant that he met his inst tough opponent ön fils first appearance of the year

on the 1-lightning" fast centre:

Has the decline and fall of the American tennis empire

otgun? This does not follow since many of their stars were absent-most notably, Beverly Baker-leitz, Tut Bertzen, and Dick

Barry Mackay

and Ron Holmberg, ranked third and fourth respectively, were dia appliating. But the play of Leenagers Buchholz, Chuck Me Kinley and Dennis Ralston pro našes that the Americans will coins back with a vengeance:

In another week's time Britain meets Italy at Wimbledon in the semi-finals of the European Zone of the Davis Cup. Since Wilson lost to Pietrangeli in five sets one of the best matches of the Championships-the issue seems precariously balanced...

star playèr who ... One

emerged froma Wimbledon with an even higher reputa tion praé-Maria, Esther Bueno, the

Brazilian school«mistress, who retained her title with the loss of only one self...

now rate Maria as the greatest stylist in women's ten-

Try

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True enough, there were fewer "rabbits" than ever and such stats as Drobny, Patty, Holm- berg, Gerrard, Mulligan, “Florn, Mesto, Belcbant, Haillet, Gimeno, Knight, Davies and Rumar were eligible for the Flate event, open to first and second round losers.

But the standard at the top was dar weaker than I expected end fer me this has been a highly disappointing Wimbledon, one of the poorest since the warget

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