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1 Seven U.S.Women Net Stars Turn Back Wimbledon Rivals y MaureenConnolly,DorisHart Prance Through First Round Without Losing Single Game By RQBERT C. DOWSON United Press Sports Writer J ~ WIMBLEDON, England, June 23. — Defending champion Maureen "Little Mo" Connolly and former titleholder, Doris Hart, : did not lose a game today as they led eight Americans to victory in the womens singles at the Wimbledon tennis championships. Shirley Fry, the other member of the U. S. "big three" in the womens division, expended even less energy on this sultry day. She walked into the second round when Brigit Gullbrandsson-Sanden of Sweden defaulted. Of the eight American girls who played, only Anne Gray of Washington was beaten. Of the seven winners, only Karol Fageros of Miami lost a set. Miss Connolly, master of womens international tennis at 18, came here with 15 playing costumes and appeared to have the strokes to keep them on display until the Juny 4 final. The Wimbledon, United States, , Australian and French champion began her bid for a second straight title with a 21-minute 6-0, 6-0 victory over Dora Kilian of South Africa. Miss Hart, seeded second behind sMiss Connolly and favored to meet the blonde champion in the eighth straight ail-American womens final, whipped Janet Morgan of Britain by the same shutout margin. Miss Connolly of San Diego, Calif., and Miss Hart of Coral Gables, Fla., drew first round byes and the triumphs put them in the third round. All the other U. S. women played first round contests. Knode Beats Woodgate Fourth seeded Dorothy Head Knode of Alameda, Calif., defeated Georgie Wood-gate" of Britain, 6-2, 6-2; Julia Sampson of San Marino, Calif., ousted Pat Gotla of Britain, 6-1, 6-2; Barbara Scofield Davidson of Milwaukee, Wis., -eliminated M. E. Fisher of Australia, 6-2, 6-1; Baba Madden Lewis of Newtonville, Mass., defeated Pat Harrison of Britain, 8-6, 6-3, and Miss Fageros beat Valerie Pitt of Britain, 6-1, 4-6, 6-1. Miss Gray was eliminated by Michele Bourbonnais of France, 6-4, 6-3. The womens singles made up the bulk of the second-day competition. But the mens doubles also got under way and one of the matches indicated a bleak future for second-seeded Vic Seixas and Gardnar Mulloy, Americas top hope in that division. With a capacity crowd of 15,000 anticipating an upset on the center court, Seixas of Philadelphia and Mulloy of Coral Gables, Fla., pulled out a 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 first round victory over the unseeded British team of Tony Mottram and Geoffrey Paish in one of the days best matches. While the American pair panted to victory over the British Davis cuppers, the top seeded Australian team of Ken Rose-wall and Lewis Hoad coasted to victory in their first round match. The 18-year-old Aussie youngsters defeated Rene Buser of Switzerland and J. I. Devroe of Belgium, 6-1, 6-0, 6-3. In other first round mens doubles involving the seeded teams, fourth seeded Budge Patty of Los Angeles and Jaroslav Drobny of Egypt defeated Britains Henry Billington and Donald Butler, 6-3, 6-2; 6-2 and third ranked Mervyn Rose and Rex Hartwig of Australia eliminated IT. R. "Tim" Lewis of Britain and Ian MacDonald of Trinidad, 6-3, 6-4, 6-1.
