Show SPORT RT PARADE 4 By Oscar Fraley FOREST HILLS N. N Y Sept 5 I UP UP The The ghosts of such stich tennis greats as Tilden Lacoste Cochet and Budge shuddered apprehensively apprehensively apprehensively today as Herbie Flam and Art Larsen met on the Ule hallowed center court at Forest Hills for forthe forthe forthe the national amateur tennis championship cham cham- Almost anything can happen as the two California kids battle it ill out in the sacrosanct stadium and i the only sure bet is that it wont won't be the best tennis ever fer seen there not not even this year Flam a plodding young man who loo looks s like mee he has two left feet w will sill handle the role of fa fa- fa This despite the fact that while a dead ringer for Lou Nova he is on the deck even more often than that thal former stick pogo-stick heavy heavy- weight Big Struggle But Herbie Herbic will have a struggle to steal the comic relief spotlight from Larsen a southpaw from San Francisco who is left-handed left no matter how you look at him A real dizzy blond thanks to liberally lib hb- lib lib- applied peroxide Lil Li Arthur Arthur Arthur Ar Ar- thur hits some of the oddest shots seen outside of wall four-wall handball His forte is a posture reminiscent of a kangaroo in a straight jacJ jacket et and he makes more gestures than a frustrated crap shooter The best bet though is for Flam to win the match and LarI Larsen Larsen Lar- Lar Lar Lar- I sen to take lake the theatrical honors Looks Good Herbie when hes he's on his feet shows flashes of real brilliance with a tennis racquet He had to toas toas toas as he turned back Gardnar Mulby Mulloy Mul Mul- loy by in the semifinals this Mulloy being no baby to be laughed ou out of a point But Herbie tried and you have to give him that He made so many point four landings landing's the grass court began to look ook like it had been plowed and harrowed Larsen's Larson's theory is that tennis has its girls and the men arent aren't getting a fair break As Asa a he has touched up his locks and eyebrows to match a pencil-line pencil blond mus- mus tache Arthur stalks the court like a gay nineties tragedian He scowls gr mases ft frowns owns sneers sneers- and sometimes smiles He scowls at the ball boys demanding snowwhite snowwhite snowwhite snow- snow white pellets unmarred by gra grass stains He faces away from the thenet thenet thenet net in communion with wi h the shade shades of Barrymore and then wheels stiffly like an unemployed storm trooper and dramatically gestures that he is ready to serve By this time his opponent is ready to climb over the net and settle the issue sans racquet and umpires |