Salt Lake Telegram | 1950-08-28 | Page 16 | Aussies Figure to Take All U. S. Tennis Honors

AUSSIES FIGURE TO TAKE ALL U. S. TENNIS HONORS FOREST HILLS, N. Y.t Aug. 28 (INS) America'i annual an-nual carnival of tennis, the national singles championshipa. atarts ita eight-day grind at Forest Hills Monday and Australia's Aus-tralia's Frank Sodgman is favored to become the new king of the courts. The United States was faced with the possibility of falling to its lowest tennis standing since 1939 as the dynamic Aussies threatened to make off with everything but the capitol dome. Uncle Sam's meager hopes of gaining some stature ! after the solid whipping by the Aussies. for the Davis cup , were lessened by the probability that Budge Patty of Los ! Angeles, the Wimbledon and French champion, will not see action in the nationals. The top-seeded American player may be forced out because be-cause of a weak ankle. Thia would leave it up to second-seeded second-seeded Herbie Flam, 21-year-old UCLA student, to be the chief color-bearer for the U. S. Both Pancho Gonzales, last year's winner, and Ted Schroeder, the runner-up, are absent from this year's lists. Listed behind Flam in the domestic men's seed are Gard-nar Gard-nar Mullov. Tom Brown Jr., Vic Seixas, Art Larsen. Earl Cochell, Dick Savitt, Billy Talbert, Jim Brink and Sam Match.