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Three Yanks Gain Net Quarterfinals Savitt, Seixas, Flam Wimbledon Victors Maureen Connolly Helps Set Stage for Possible All U.S. Women Semifinal By ROBERT MUSEL United Press Sports Writer WIMBLEDON, England, June 27. Three Americans defending champion Dick Sa-vitt, Vic Seixas and Herb Flam fought their way into the mens singles quarterfinals today at the -Wimbledon Tennis championships and the U. S. women, led by Maureen Connolly, set the stage for a possible Ail-American semi-final in the women singles. The other mens quarter-finalists after a blistering day of tennis under a sun so torrid British gentlemen removed their coats and sat about in shirt sleeves and suspenders like Americans were Frank Sedgman, Ken McGregor and Mervyn Rose of Australia, Jaroslav Drobny of Egypt and Eric Sturgess of South Africa. The seeding committee chose wisely. The survivors were the eight top ranked players. "Little Mo" Connolly, 17-year-old U. S. champion, carried her injured racket arm into the womens quarter-finals along with defending champion Doris Hart of Coral Gables, Fla., and Pat Todd of La Jolla, Calif. Louise Brough of Beverly Hills, Calif., and Shirley Fry of Akron, Ohio, who also won today, are a round behind but almost certainly will advance over feeble opposition. A crowd of 27,000 turned out for the third day of the two-week tournament. They watched Seixas, former Air Force pilot from Philadelphia and Americas top-ranked, player, display the most impressive tennis of the day while eliminating 1950 champion Budge Patty of Los Angeles, 7-5, 4-6, 6-3, 7-5. Flam Beats Gardnar Mulloy Flam of Beverly Hills, Calif ., also had to eliminate an American to advance but he found Gardnar Mulloy of Coral Gables, Fla., already softened up by previous hard matches and breezed to a 6-4, 7-5, 6-1 triumph. Savitt of Orange, N..J., used his booming service for an easy 6-3, 6-3, 6-3 victory over Jacques Brichant of Belgium. Grant Golden, 25-year-old Wilmette, 111., player who stands 27th in the U. S. rankings, bowed to Sturgess, 4-6, 6-3, 6-1, 7-9, 6-4, after winning the admiration of the crowd for his play, fight and sportsmanship. The lefthanded Rose eliminated the other XL S. man, Straight Clark of Pasadena, Calif., 6-2, 6-2, 6-4. In the womens play, Miss Connolly of San Diego, Calif., ousted British Wightman Cupper Susan Partridge, 6-3,5-7, 7-5; Miss Hart defeated Julia Wipplinger of South Africa, 6-4, 4-6, 6-3; and Mrs. Toddelimi-nated Dorothy Head of Alameda, CaSf., the only XT. S. girl who lost today, 6-4, 6-3. Miss Brough and Miss Fry quickly escaped the sun by scoring identical, 6-2, 6-1 victories. Miss Brough beat Barbara Penrose of Australia and Miss Fry defeated Elizabeth Lombard of Ireland. Sedgman, the top-seeded favorite, brushed aside teammate Don Candy, 6-2, 6-1, 6-0, in 40 minutes of flawless tennis. McGregor whipped Armando Vieira of Brazil, 6-3, 6-1, 6-3, and Drobny eliminated 17-year-old Lewis Hoad of Australia in a bitterly-contested, 6-3, 3-6, 8-6, 6-3 match. The quarter-final pairings: Savitt-Rose, - Flam-Seixas, Sedgman-Sturgess, and Mc-Gregor-Drobny. Seixas downed Patty in 90 minutes of fine tennis. They were almost evenly matched but an ability to break Pattys service at crucial points and lobs which sometimes left Patty standing helpnessly in the forecourt gave Seixas his victory. Goldens game struggle against Sturgess fascinated thousands of court 2 -fans. The Illinois player came sin on the South Africans service and belted it along the baselines and Sturgess found the Americans tricky twist service hard to handle. Like Sturgess and Drobny, Miss Connolly got a scare but he will to win and errors by Miss Partridge got her. into the round of eight. "Little Mo" insisted her strained shoulder had improved with yesterdays rest but she hit out or netted an unusual number of easy returns. Most of the steam left her drives in the second and third sets but the heavy-footed Miss Partridge was too exhausted to provide the upset which 7,000 court 1 fans expected when the little California trailed, 1-3, in the last set.
