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J f ; r ; i . f l a i 1 t 2 ■ 3 1 * 8 5 3 - s 3 s v I t ~ ~ at t e U t £ . y e e jj _ d h h - s s •1 5 e l» lt ■ y p e J to ™ k 3 h i- i- 43 13 ;o ;d id r- , Larsen, Richardson Defeated in Upsets Bow to Johansson, Ampion, Respectively; Savitt, Four Other Seeded Yanks Win By ROBERT MLS EL United Press Sports Writer WIMBLEDON, England, June 23.— Art Larsen, the jittery San Francisco southpaw, and 18-year-old Hamilton Richardson were blasted out of the Wimbledon tennis tour-. nament in stunning first-round upsets today, but five other seeded Americans swept ahead without the loss of a set. Larsen, who won the U. S. singles cham-l pionship in 1950 and was seeded ninth at Wimbledon, paid his own way across the Atlantic in search of the unofficial world title, but after being bounced by Swedens Torsten Johansson, 10-8, 2-6, 6-4, 6-2, the blond U. S. star wondered if it all was worth it. Larsen simply caught Johansson on a day when the black-haired Swede hit every shot exactly where he wanted it, and bowed out after trying everything from book tennis to circus tricks. Richardson, the former U. S. junior champion from Baton Rouge, La., who was the "giant-killer" of the 1951 all-England tournament, received a bitter taste of his own treatment, at the hands of Tiny Feli-J cissimo Ampon of the Philippines. Ampon, after dropping the first two sets, staged a magnificent rally to win, 1-6, 5-7, 6-2, 6-3, 6-0. Richardson was seeded eleventh. Savitt Beats Kumar Defending champion Dick Savitt of Orange, N. J., who is seeded fourth, and third-seeded Vic Seixas, of Philadelphia, led the triumphal parade of five seeded and five unseeded Americans into the second round on a sunny but breezy afternoon. Savitt whipped Naresh Kumar, Indias Davis cupper, 6-1, 6-2, 6-0; Seixas, who is ranked No. 1 in the U. S., trimmed Narenda Nath, another Davis cupper from India, 7-5, 6-2, 6-2; sixth-seeded Herb Flam of Beverly Hills, Calif., eliminated Owen Wil-s liams of South Africa, 6-3, 8-6, 6-4; tenth-seeded Gardnar Mulloy of Coral Gables, Fla., beat Vladimir Skonecki, a stateless former Polish star, 6-1, 6-3, 8-6, and twelfth -seeded Budge Patty of Los Angeles, 1950 Wimbledon titlist, trounced Athol Tills of New Zealand, 6-1, 6-2, 6-1. Most of the hardy crowd who braved a nippy breeze tried to cram into center court to watch the defeat of the Americans — always a popular British pastime — and they applauded mightily as first the dash-. ing Larsen and then the grim Richardson ran into the kind of tennis that is the nightmare of every world-class star. Richardson tired after taking the first set with such ease that it looked like the expected result would not be long forth-,r coming. But the bouncy little Filipino, who has to stand on tiptoes to reach five feet, had him weaving from one corner to another. And to the surprise and delight of the crowd, it was Richardson who was exhausted first by the deep running game, Filipino Wins Last Two Sets Easily The diminutive Filipino wore the big 18-r year-old Richardson to a complete frazzle, and won the last two sets easily. He returned everything Richardson could offer, and capitalized on the southern young- sters shaky backhand to draw him out of position time and again, and pass him at the net on either forehand or backhand. Aside from the Larsen-Johansson match, watched intently by Trygve Lie, secretary of the United Nations from the Royal box, the crowd saw only flashes of world class tennis. Frank Sedgman, seeded number one and the betting favorite, steamrollered Jaime Bartroli of Spain 6-1, 6-0, 6-2, while Jaro- slav Drobny, seeded number two and the sentimental favorite, disposed of 1 6-year - old Billy Knight of Britain — youngest play-~ er entered,. 6-0, 6-1, 6-3. Among the victorious non -seeded Yanks, Straight Clark of Pasadena, Cal., beat Drago Mitic of Yugoslavia, 6-2, 6-2, 7-5; Grant Golden of Wilmette, HI., trimmed Pedro Guimares of Brazil, 6-2, 6-1, 6-0; Gene Garrett of San Diego, Cal., walloped Cyril Kemp of Ireland, 6-1, 6-0, 6-2, Irvin Dorfman of New York defeated Stanley Clark of Britain, 6-2, 6-4, 6-4, and Harry Likas of San Francisco won over Peter Cawthorn of Australia, 6-2, 0-6, 6-0, 6-2. In addition to Larsen and Richardson, four U. S. lesser-lights also were eliminated in the first round. Steve Potts of Mem- phis, Tenn., was beaten by Alejo Russell of Argentina, 6-1, 6-2, 6-0; John Ager of Ash- ville, N. C, lost to Derrick Capell of South Africa, 6-0, 6-0, 4-6, 6-1; Pablo Eisenberg of Maplewood, N. J., was beaten by Horst Hermann of Germany, 6-2, 3-6, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, and Alastair Martin of Glenhead. N. Y., did not appear for his match and lost by default. ___ -— • ■ - —
