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Show Pato Thirties McNeill Will Overhaul Riggs ly IILL IONI .1 " NEW YORK, March 1 (AP) No matter how food Bobby , Riggs may look today in hit indoor tennis championship match with Chicaioan Frank Froehlinc, it's atill doubtful hall b able to impress Walter Pate. The Davit cup captain has had I an eyeful ot Don McNeill In full flight and we haven't aeen him so bubbling since Don Budge turned turn-ed pro. Fundamentally, Pate doein't much care for Riggs' type of game. Bobby, while national and Wimbledon champion. It ttrlctly a bate-liner, bate-liner, and Pate has no patience with baaeltnen. Hit teachings, as bett carried out 1 " '-ji McNeill b) cut to the Fate pattern. pat-tern. Nor b that accidental. ' "Last summer." said Walter, "I told Don there wars only tlx , strokes he needed to master the attacking game . forehand and " backhand drive, forehand and ' backhand volley, smash and ter- . vice. He held out for greater variety, va-riety, thought he should have chop and lob. . "I told him those were strictly . defensive shots all right for base ' linen like Tilden and Riggs, but C no good for attack. I told him to stick to hit tlx and he could thumb J his nose at anybody." ' McNeill didn't da anything a " Indelicate yesterday, but be did UM " every ana of the tall doaen strokes " to perfection, la routing Frank " Bowden, veteran New Yorker, and thus gaining his place la the final... It was that atralght set -, 1-, -4 triumph which Pate saw. by Budge, stress ia McNeill " offensive . ten nit at all times. It't the credo which Pate and other U. S. L. T. A. officials offi-cials try to pound Into the heads of the upcoming youngtten. |