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r I I | | 1 I 1 | i I I I I I 1 —B?-_H£ » .__lr #Hi BR1 BK; WP.v:- S-w? I _™v 4w«|k8- 42mand.% 3_H _1__ **andand■ ;3g_l i in 1L T c k J X of b at I MRS. MARGARET OSBORNE DU PONT J — One of the three Americans favored in v the womens singles at Wimbledon t tomorrow. k i in c of b at J v t k JDrobny Installed Wimbledon Choice Top-Seeded Sedgman Rated Second to Self-Exiled Czech In Mens Singles Matches By ROBERT C. DOW SON United Press Sports Writer WIMBLEDON, England, June 23.— Although seeded second behind Frank Sedg-! man of Australia, Jaroslav Drobny, the self -exiled Czech now playing out of Egypt, was installed the favorite today to win the mens singles title in the Wimbleton tennis championships opening Monday. Drobny was considered a 3 to 1 favorite the field of 128 players from 34 countries. Budge Patty of Los Angeles, who won the crown last year, was third choice in the betting line at 5 to 1. Top-seeded Sedgman was quoted at 4 to 1. For the womens singles, three Americans — defending champion Louise Brough Beverly Hills, Calif., Mrs. Margaret Osborne duPont of Belle vue, Del., and Doris Hart of Jacksonville, Fla. — all were quoted 2 to 1. Miss Brough, who will be seeking her fourth consecutive Wimbledon singles title and who also holds a share of the womens doubles and mixed doubles championships, would have been a clear favorite except for the torn fibers in her racquet arm which kept her inactive for the past month. Faces Terrific Strain However, she was given the go ahead to compete after injections eased the pain, but it still was a question whether her elbow would stand up to the strain of 10 or 11 days of play In three events. Mondays opening day program will be devoted entirely to first round singles matches with the first round of the womens singles scheduled for Tuesday. In the feature mens singles matches, Drobny will meet Baron Gottfried Von Cramm, the blond, immaculate German star who will be playing at Wimbledon for the first time since the war, and Art Lar-rr sen of San Leandro, Calif., will face Mer-1_ vin Rose of Australia. Larsen, the U. S. singles champion, who is seeded No. 3 behind Drobny and Sedg-m man, was a 6 to 1 favorite to defeat the Australian, but strong backing was reported for Rose, who is seeded No. 3 in Australia, but was not ranked for Wimbledon. "I took Larsen to five sets in our na-i_ tional championships during the winter," the 20-year-old Rose observed. "Im nearly a year older and playing correspondingly better. Why shouldnt I upset the odds?" Von Cramm was not given much of a chance against Drobny. The 42-year-old German was" a great favorite with the crowd back in the middle 30s when he battled his way into the Wimbledon finals three successive times, only to be beaten on each occasion, once by Fred Perry and twice by Don Budge. Ranking right behind those opening day matches for interest was the first round contest between Dick Savitt of Orange, N. J., and Nigel Cockburn, the South African Davis Cup Player. Savitt, who holds the Australian singles title and is seeded No. 6, is favored. r •1 1 I i i C J e • T * a ld e by y g- j , 1 l 1 as he ie 3d j j. i i , Y, 1 ff rs i il- re g- h- Sen. sn.
