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, . U. S. National Amateur Tennis Championships to Open Today Aussies Expected to Take Mens Singles; Little Mo Choice for Womens Title By OSCAR FRALEY United Press Sports Writer FOREST HILLS, N. Y., Aug. 28. The U. S. National Amateur Tennis championships open Saturday with Australias boy wonders expected to dominate the mens singles for the third consecutive year and Maureen "Little Mo" Connolly the choice for a second straight Wimbledon-U. S. sweep. Ken Rosewall and blond Lew Hoad, the 18-year-old whiz kids from "Down Under," were favored against Americas aging stars after Wimbledon champion Vis Seixas suffered an inj jury two wooks ago. Seixas, the 1951 runner-up and top-seeded American, was favoring a twisted knee and chances appeared slim that a U. S. star would regain the title held the past two years by Aussie Frank Sedgman, who since turned pro. Seixas tests the leg against a fellow Philadelphian, Mort Stern, in the feature of Saturdays 49 opening matches, 37 in the mens division and 12 in the womens singles. Lean Vic, who will be 30 years old Sunday, then will know better about nisi chances. Rosewall Meets Bartzen Rosewall, the slender Australian who is ranked as the top-seeded foreign "threat, begins his bid for a third straight Australian victory in what could be a tough warm-up match against southpaw Bernard Bartzen of San Angelo, Texas. One other mens feature pits skinny Art Larsen of San Leandro, Calif., the 1950 U. S. champion, against Mexicos Mario Llamas, as Tony Trabert of Cincinnati, another of Americas hopes, draws a first round bye. "Little Mo," the killer of the womens division, doesnt open her bid for a third straight womens title until Monday, when she goes against Mrs. Jean French Fallot of New York. The top -womens match in the opening program sends 28-year-old Doris Hart of Coral Gables, Fla., out once again in a so far fruitless quest of the title, against Mrs. Nellie Sheer Kagen of New York. Miss Hart, who is seeded second, four times has been runner-up for the crown, but, while she has won just about everything else in the tennis world, never has captured this one. Womens play also will see the return to the Nationals of Mrs. Margaret Osborne duPont, three-time champion, who is in the same half of the draw as is Miss Connolly.
