Ft. Lauderdale · July 2-6, 2003
By Tim Boggan
Tim
Boggan (R) interviews Dan Seemiller for this article. Dan won Over 40 Men's
Singles, and made the final of Over 30 Men's Singles. Tim was no slouch either -
he and Frank Dwelly won their fifth straight Over 70 Doubles title at the Open
and Nationals. (Six in a row for Tim, as he'd also won one with Leon Ruderman.)
Photo by John Oros ©2003.
Men’s
Over 30’s:
In the 52-entry Over 30’s, former 5-time U.S. Champion Sean O’Neill finally dropped a game, his semi’s opener with the explosive Barbados International, Robert Roberts, then won the next three by unpredictably varying his backhand- to-backhand play and predictably giving Robert short forehand serves that brought weak returns. Sean’s excellent footwork allowed him to score more power forehands than Robert who often preferred to attack with backhands repeatedly errant. In the other semi’s, former 5-time U.S. Champion Danny Seemiller had a straight-game win over Brian Pace. Brian said he felt so restricted—“Danny wouldn’t let me loop, kept making me step around.” In short, Brian seemed to be groping for points, “like playing somebody in a cave,” he said—“somebody who has night vision.” Commenting on Seemiller’s intensity, Brian said, “Danny’s too nervous for me. I’m a cool guy, but he got me jittery.”
So who’s gonna win the final? For the last three weeks O’Neill’s been into training with 16-year-old standing Paralympian Ed Levy. Says he’s been “running, biking, and playing table tennis 5 hours a day.” And Seemiller, back from a dramatic World’s, is he as ready? “Oh, yeah,” says Danny’s friend Mark Nordby, “he’s touching the ball.” But, after losing the 1st, Seemiller can’t hold a 9-6 lead—and at 9-all passively chops a return that Sean easily puts away. Then, up game-point, Sean timely stops play (too many people passing opposite just outside court), and afterwards Danny untimely misplays, drops his 5th straight point. Down 2-0, he’s lost momentum, can no longer contest.
Men’s
Over 40’s:
Seemiller rebounded, though, to win the 60-entry 40’s over a mismatched but game Carlton Sealy, three long decades ago the Caribbean Champion. After representing Barbados in the 1977 Birmingham World’s, Sealy left the Sport, and only returned 22 years later when he decided to coach Juniors. Still, he thought, might as well play the Over 40’s here—and, supported enthusiastically match after match by it seemed all 36 of the Barbadian entries, he did well to get to the final. His victims included Richard Hicks, John Allen, Paul Singh (runner-up to Alex Voronin in the Over 40 U-1800), and the now Florida-based Chu Bin Hai.
Danny, meanwhile, in his quarter’s, after losing the 1st, got by German lefty, Reinhold Braun, a ferociously intense player, bulky but fast-moving, who, using Friendship 837 on his backhand, had been angling his awkwardly effective game through 2nd and now 3rd Division Bundesliga play. On advancing into the semi’s, Danny held on to down 2-time Jamaican National Champion and Olympic Coach Keith Evans, 3, 4, -10, 10. Crack!—surely everyone within earshot heard that first point. Earlier, Keith had been forced to rally with an unglued racket past compatriot International Ernie Virgo. Now he was using so much glue—“It’s an addiction,” he said—I thought for a moment he’d all-out smacked the ball with a hardbat. This time Evans’s rally fell short—but not before Seemiller was shocked to find, after those two initially comfortable games, he was suddenly losing perspective. It was as if Danny was back in his baseball days facing a 6’, 8” pitcher…such was the lanky Keith’s wing span as he increasingly beat balls, backhand and forehand, at the Champ.
Men’s
Over 40 Hardbat:
You
couldn’t have asked for a better final than the hardbat match between Steve
Berger and Lim Ming Chui. At deuce in the 1st, Steve made ending
errors, then went ahead in the 2nd 7-1. Ming closed to 19-18, but
Steve scored with a backhand and finished by getting an irretrievable net. After
Chui won the 3rd, the players continued grinding it out: Ming
ever-rolling and twirling short sidespin tops, waiting, waiting, looking for the
right ball to sock, and Steve, chopping, changing his spin, moving left, right,
up, back—the two of them with their working points keeping the spectators
involved, indeed, rapt. At 18-all, Berger, keeping his composure, picked two
backhands in, and won the game at 19. In the 5th, with Steve up
19-17, Ming caught him on a clever drop. Then erred to fall behind match point.
Down 20-18, Chui got forehand control and now his rolls became drives, but Steve
returned them all until Ming was able to smash in a winner. Then he followed by
quickly deucing it. What now? A precipitous moment. Quiet….Then a buzz from
the crowd: Steve had served off! Now, though, luckily, he was helped by a net.
From 21-all, the ending points, though fraught with emotion, were error-prone.
Final result? Berger, drenched, as if fully clothed he’d just come out of the
shower, 27—Chui 25.
Women’s
Over 30’s:
Of course it’s U.S. Team members Lily Yip and Simone Yang in the final of the Women’s 30’s, so take your pick. Lily had beaten Simone in the recent Team Trials, but with Simone up 7-1, 8-3 in the 1st, a turnaround seemed imminent. And indeed it was. For Lily mounted a furious attack, angled-in balls this way and that, and, while Simone jumped and stamped, ran 8 points in a row. Match, in effect, all over. Which not only pleased her present coach, husband Barry Dattel (“He was very helpful,” said Lily—“didn’t say a word”) but also her visiting Guangdong Province coach of 23 years ago, Wong Man Wa, who’d led the Hong Kong Women’s Team to a Silver in the 1998 Asian Games and who’d be assisting Lily at her N.J. Coaching Camp immediately after this Open.
I
might add, too, that Lily won the Hardbat over the formidable opposition of
Leung Che-Him, Xin Ping (who’d knocked out Seemiller), and Alexis Perez
(who’d eliminated both Chui and Ashu Jain, winner with John Jarema of the
Hardbat Doubles over Berger and Larry Hodges).
Women’s
Over 40’s:
In 1st-round matches, Florida’s Janice Giagnacova, down 2-0, rallied to upset Michigan’s Jan Miron; and Danuta Andrzejewska, 9, 7, 9, defeated Pallavi Hari, here in the U.S. just for this Open all the way from Madras on the Bay of Bengal. Before Lily and Simone made their unimpeded way to the final, there was a nail-scratching quarter’s match between, as one wit said, the Williams sisters—oh, alright, make that Barbara Chaimson Kaminsky and Donna Chaimson Sakai. Barbara had broken her non-playing hand back in March and since it was in a cast for two months it gave her a good excuse not to practice, and then when she took the cast off, she was able to play golf and so had another excuse not to practice. Bob, Husband/Coach/Captain of their non-practicing Team, went off to Europe in a huff, served as Executor of his aunt’s will, visited the grave of his grandfather, and, 15 miles from Vladimir Samsonov’s home town of Volkovysk, reflected on what he’d left 64 years ago.
Donna, meanwhile, may not have practiced for this Open any more than her sister, but her mind-set, Barbara feared, was, as usual, pointed towards beating her. The more so when Sakai won the first two games. But by pushing ball after ball to Donna’s backhand and occasionally picking through her, Kaminsky evened the match. At 6-all in the 5th, Barbara got a net. Then Donna’s ball caught the net, but fell wrong for her. An edge for Donna, and an ill-advised backhand by Barbara evened it up again….After a long chiseling point is interrupted by a stray ball, Sakai re-serves, and I’m astonished to see Kaminsky, heretofore so careful, impulsively attack that serve, loft a forehand over the back edge of the table. What possessed her? Would there be a reckoning? But after the game is tied at 10-all, Barbara goes ahead, then finishes with a fateful net/edge—whereupon the vanquished vanishes.
Since
the suggestion of splitting this Over 40 title and prize money was nixed by the
Tournament Committee, Lily and Simone played the final. Unlooped balls to
Lily’s left corner, the slippery floor, and the fact that maybe, in trying to
snap in that cross-court forehand, she didn’t move laterally as fast as she
used to contributed to Simone’s 3-1 win.
Over
40 Doubles:
Boris
Rosenberg, 15 years ago World #30 (the Russian #2 behind Andre Mazunov), and now
playing Second Division Bundesliga for Bergneustadt’s TTC Schwalbe Club,
paired with Dr. Gary Osmanov, his former teammate in Odessa, to win the Over 40
Doubles. But it wasn’t easy—they were down 2-1 to both Evans/Virgo and
Allen/Scott Preiss before prevailing in the final over Dattel/Yip –8, 8, 13,
9.
Men’s
Over 50:
In the 55-entry Men’s 50’s, pip-of-a-penholder Xin Peng, who nearly 30 years ago was among the top three players in China (Li Zhenshi was one of his teammates) effortlessly advanced to the semi’s…..Over Carlos Estrada (who, down 1-0 and at 12-all in the 2nd was pressured by Alan Grambo). Over Greg Gingold (who at 1-1 and deuce in the 3rd was presented with not one but two mis-serves by me). Over Hank McCollum (who’d learned how to come from behind to beat Dave Sakai by watching Tom Wintrich, down 2-0 and 10-8 in the 3rd, extend Dave to 11-9 in the 4th by pummeling away at him with focused “I-don’t-care” abandon). Peng’s tip to Hank: learn to flip those short balls I keep giving you. Tom’s tip to self (taken from the revolving door of the Tournament’s Marriott Hotel): Do Not Push.
Coming out in the semi’s to meet Peng—still playing with the racket he used to win the 1992 U.S. Open Over 40’s (and with a finger-formed indentation on the back of the racket to prove it)—was George Brathwaite who’d taken on two former Hong Kong Provincial Team players. First, Leung Che-Him, who I hope showed no disrespect in knocking off “Captain America” (that’s what a little girl in the Hall called Jim McQueen in his top-hat/red, white, and blue-striped Uncle Sam suit). And second, Lau Kwing Yiu (“Albert”), the 2000 WORLD Over 60 Champion. Actually, aside from the one game against Lau where he kept de-accelerating his forehand stroke, The Chief had little trouble with this pair. “It was very damaging to me,” said Albert, “that I wasn’t strong enough to hit through George.” By semi’s time when Hank McCoullum arrived late to offer the educable Chief some advice, George, realizing he couldn’t play the short game with Xin, was down 2-0. An adjustment in receiving serve helped—Brathwaite moved from his backhand over to a center position at the table. But Xin’s angled-off placements didn’t allow George the chance to open his spin game, and, handicapped so, he had to be partially pleased to have at least won the 3rd game.
On the other side of the Draw, Changping Duan reached the semi’s with both a 5-game win over Peter Ng (who’d gone 5 with Lin Lobo) and an 11-9 in the 4th display of patience over Richard Hicks. Though Hicks had problems with Duan’s serves (“They curved into my backhand knuckles”), he was very much in the match when, up 9-8 in the 4th, he got a second powerful backhand in that looked like a sure winner. But Duan’s racket was where it had to be, the ball ricocheted back, and Changping ran out the match.
Chui,
playing with Stiga Radical short pips and 755 Friendship on the backhand, also
advanced to the semi’s with a win in the 8th’s over Dave
Peradotto (who’d 11-9 in the 5th escaped Morris Jackson), and a
quarter’s win over Lee Gok Yin in which the 14-12 1st game was key.
Lee, a righty penholder using what one observer described as “slow, strange
rubber,” had disposed of the following in 1-2-3 order: Homer Brown
(celebrating his 35th consecutive U.S. Open appearance by winning the
Under 2000 Hardbat from James Rautis), Bill Ukapatayasakul (currently on a
pleasure trip round the U.S.), and Chu Bin Hai (rating: an impressive 2327).
Ming then eliminated Changping in straight games before he himself was blitzed
in the final by Xin.
Men’s
Over 50 Doubles:
The
50 Doubles final was won, shakily, by Brathwaite/Sakai over Chui/Duan. Up 10-6
match point in the 4th, George and Dave couldn’t find that
finishing point when Dave at 10-9 just missed scoring with a backhand-thrust.
Given this reprieve, how does Chui
respond? (He’s playing 3 or 4 times a week in Pennsauken, South
Jersey—“The players there allow me to have confidence,” he says). He
serves into the wrong court! Then, again match point down, he turns into a
defender (though, as he says, “It’s not my nature to be patient, to
defend”)—chops back, unwaveringly, half a dozen or more balls to again get
to deuce. But now play from both teams is weak and Brathwaite/Sakai stagger in a
16-14 winner.
Women’s
Over 50:
Charlene
Xiaoying Liu won the Women’s Over 50—but she must have thought there was a
conspiracy to do her in. Competitors Andrzejewska (lost to Liu 3-1), Kaminsky
(lost to Liu 9 in the 5th after leading 6-1, then trying to hit too
much and without enough force), and finalist Suzanne Sanders (lost to Liu, after
being up 2-1) all played with long pips on the backhand. “My rating is 200
points higher than theirs,” said Charlene—“but sometimes I play like 1600.
I had no good form here—I serve and push.” Husband Changping sees her on
court, wants to help—but she waves him away. “I just can’t hit against
long pips. When I was young there were no long pips.” Weirdly, there was $300
in prize money for the winner and runner-up in the Women’s Over 40, NO prize
money for the Women’s Over 50, and $200 prize money for the winner, runner-up
and semifinalists in the Women’s Over 60.
Men’s
Over 60:
In the one semi’s, it’s the ex-Hong Kongers (they’ve known one another for 40 years) Kwing Yiu “Albert” Lau versus Leung Che-Him who’d rallied from 2-0 down to beat Elman Concepcion, 13-11 in the 5th (after Elman had knocked out Alan Grambo in 5). From the beginning Leung’s penhold offense came at Lau’s sometimes deep defense (he brings balls back as if momentarily he’s a waiter carefully whipping your plate off an adjacent sideboard) with the result that had Leung, up game-point, not missed a forehand, he would have carried the match into the 5th.
On the other side of the Draw, Brathwaite, having downed, first, Houshang Bozorgzadeh, recently returned from his role as Iranian Coach and Technical Advisor in Teheran, Bangkok, and Paris, and then Lynwood Smith (who’d eliminated Marv Leff 11-9 in the 5th), now faced in his semi’s Richard Hicks. It’s amazing how, with that heavy corset of a back brace Dick wears, he can glide around the court. Of course though both players were intent on keeping the ball in play, George’s aim was to maneuver to spin forehands in the hopes of getting a high return, and Dick was more looking to pick backhands or just occasionally topspin them—though this latter tactic as play proceeded was very dangerous, for it was precisely those topspins that George was waiting to effectively backhand counter.
After losing the first two games 11-9, George evened it up, then helped by a backhand flick that caught the edge and an up-to-the-table forehand smash, rallied to lead 7-6 in the 5th—whereupon Dick tied it up with a net ball. At 9-all George, too, was lucky, went match-point up with a net. After what had to be their longest played point (and there were some long ones), Hicks got a net. 10-all. But now Dick made the mistake of topping a backhand and George lashed it in to go ad up. Only again Hicks got a net. 11-all. Oh, a backhand-pick in for Dick—and it’s his ad. Now he’ll probably just keep relentlessly steady and hope George makes a mistake? Uh, not exactly. He serves off! George wipes both hands on the table. But there’s no fresh start—he pushes into the net and is ad down again. Hicks, after getting those last two nets, apparently feels friendly with Fate, so tops a backhand at George—which naturally George swats…off. Hicks, 14-12 in the 5th, joins Lau in the final.
When
they split the first two games, it appears Albert can hold his own. But later
he’ll tell me that Hicks’s rubber isn’t “normal.” When Dick chops, he
says, “the ball comes high, then drops like a rock.” Still, down 2-1,
Albert’s at 9-all in the 4th. But he pushes a ball into the net.
And Dick finishes him by picking a forehand and hitting it harder than I’ve
ever seen him hit one. As he lingers on court to let his heart rate slow down, I
go out and congratulate him and compliment him on his forehand. “Well,” he says,
“I’m trying to be more aggressive.” The other night, he said, he was
teaching some beginners how to hit a forehand—“‘Like this’ I showed
them. Then going home I thought to myself, ‘That’s not the way I’ve
been hitting my forehand.’ So I made an adjustment or two, and now I think
I’m hitting it better.”
Men’s
Over 60 Doubles:
Hicks
and Leff, as expected, won the 60 Doubles—over Grambo and Jerry Marcum, not,
as expected, over Brathwaite and Bard Brenner. Whether George’s game was
affected I don’t know, but he was certainly upset when, on a service turnover
in the 1st game, he whispered to Bard not to step into the middle
before his opponent made the shot commitment, and was promptly faulted by the
umpire who said, “Play must be continuous.” “Our opponents weren’t even
at the ready,” George protested, “and Bard didn’t even have a chance to
acknowledge what I’d said.” Had George taken the time to give finger signals
to his partner when serving, or then quickly changed his mind and given a
different finger, would this umpire have faulted him? Ridiculous. I told him to
file a written complaint. Umpires, too, especially those without common sense,
have to be held accountable.
Women’s
Over 60’s:
A good quarter’s match here won by former U.S. Over 40 Women’s Champ Barbara Taschner over former U.S. Over 40 Women’s runner-up Gloria Amoury. The embattled Champion, however, turned out to be Barbara Kaminsky. In the semi’s, Barbara initially seemed to have a walk to the final, for Danuta Andrzejewska (she’d been in a car crash that had forced her withdrawal from the 2002 National’s) might just as well have been incapacitated by both a neck and back brace for all the opposition she was putting up. But helped by Coach Alex Aponte, and slashing in forehands, Danuta saw not Barbara but Barbara’s point-ending way-off ball continue to soar high and so, 13-11, was still in the match. That is, until Barbara ended it all in the 4th with an ace—by mis-hitting a ball, on, 4 feet wide of where she’d intended it to go.
After
this match, Barbara announced she wasn’t playing the final with Suzanna
Sanders until 6:45 that evening. As she and Bob prepared to go out for a
leisurely lunch, Suzanna comes by, says, “See you in an hour.” To play their
final of course. Small wonder, is it, that Kaminsky would go on to beat Sanders?
Especially after Suzanna was showing a steady rolling backhand, and with the
match tied at 1-1 and 10-all in the 3rd, was able to bang in winners
with both forehand and backhand. In the 4th and 5th,
though, Barbara, instead of pushing with her backhand, began driving with it,
and that made a difference. No excuse from Suzanna—but she has been
under a lot of pressure since husband Bob (out of the hospital and gallantly
here to man an Operations Station) had been diagnosed last year with throat
cancer and had been undergoing such relentless radiation treatment as to burn
his esophagus.
Men’s
Over 70/75:
Frank Dwelly (whose decades and decades of sterling play has to make him a USATT Hall of Fame candidate) won the Over 70’s after tough matches with Lynwood Smith and Grady Gordon who, with helpful coaching by James Rautis, had –8, 7, 12, -8, -8 eliminated me (ohh, up 8-7 in the 5th, I missed an easy forehand). Grady, playing with long pips (no sponge) on the backhand and short pips with 1 and ½ mm. sponge on the forehand, spoke of Dwelly’s black side, his “weird rubber,” and said he couldn’t get anything through him.” This, after Grady had beaten Frank 3-zip in the final of the 75’s.
Players in these 70’s events (and particularly in the 80’s) were disappointed that the usual round-robins weren’t scheduled. Organizers, m’god, please give these intrepid supporters of the Open a break—let even the weakest of the strong have some fun. Good matches in the 70’s were: Bob Johnson, 12-10 in the 4th over Carl Simons; and Louie Radzeli (down 2-0 and at 10-all in the 3rd) over Jerry Perlmutter. In the 75’s, Bob Seifert made a match of it with Radzeli; and Stan Falke rallied from two down to outlast Buster Chase.
Men’s
Over 80:
Dwelly, who’d also won the Over 70 Doubles (his 5th straight major in that event with me—this time over Gordon/Dick Evans), registered his 3rd title by beating in the final of the 80’s the rheumatic but cheerfully acerbic Harry Deschamps. (Harry missed last year’s play ‘cause he was drinking coffee. Yep, didn’t watch where he was going, stumbled, fell, and broke his elbow). Know how Dwelly (whose “basketball shoes,” as one fellow said, “looked as old as the guy wearing them”) keeps fit? Not just by bending over to pick up stray balls with the suction-cup-handle-tip of his racket, but by a regimen that includes rowing, walking the treadmill, playing golf three times a week (without a cart), and on Sundays playing both table tennis and tennis. So, after you’ve been retired for a while and want to win three titles at your next Open, good luck to you—you know what you have to do.
RESULTS
Over 30 Men's Singles - Final: Sean O'Neill d. Dan Seemiller, 8,9,5; SF: O'Neill d. Robert Roberts, -6,6,6,7; Seemiller d. Brian Pace, 8,7,7; QF: O'Neill d. Taju Oladokun, 5,7,4; Roberts d. Clark Yeh, 8,-10,4,3; Seemiller d. Reinhold Braun, -5,4,8,9; Pace d. Trevor Farley, -8,8,11,5.
Over 40 Men's Singles - Final: Dan Seemiller d. Carlton Sealy, 2,2,3; SF: Seemiller d. Keith Evans, 3,4,-10,10; Sealy d. Bin Hai Chu, 6,5,3; QF: Seemiller d. Reinhold Braun, 10,1,-8,6; Evans d. Ernest Virgo, -9,-9,9,8,6; Chu d. Barry Dattel, 8,-9,6,9; Sealy d. Paul Singh, 3,8,-10,7.
Over 50 Men's Singles - Final: Xin Peng d. Lim Ming Chui, 9,2,6; SF: Xin d. George Brathwaite, 7,1,-7,6; Chui d. Changping Duan, 9,6,8.
Over 60 Men's Singles - Final: Richard Hicks d. Kwing Lau, 7,-8,6,9; SF: Hicks d. George Brathwaite, 9,9,-6,-8,12; Lau d. Che-Him Leung, 11,-8,6,6.
Over 30 Women's Singles - Final: Lily Yip d. Simone Yang, 8,7,4; SF: Yip d. Colette Palmer, 4,1,3; Yang d. Hye-Sook Brenda Mun, 11,2,2; QF: Yip d. Olga Vila, 8,8,4; Palmer d. Angela Reid, def.; Mun d. Tatyana Rodina, 2,8,-8,6; Simone d. Carmen Bejara, 0,5,3.
Over 40 Women's Singles - Final: Simone Yang d. Lily Yip, 9,8,-6,7; SF: Yang d. Charlene Xiaoying Liu, 6,4,3; Yip d. Barbara Kaminsky, 4,3,3; QF: Yip d. Linda Zhu, 4,8,4; Kaminski d. Donna Sakai, -8,-7,6,8,10; Liu d. Janice Giagnacova, 3,7,5; Yang d. Danuta Andzejewska, 9,4,5.
Over 50 Women's Singles - Final: Charlene Xiaoying Liu d. Suzanna Sanders, 7,-7,-9,5,7; SF: Liu d. Barbara Kaminsky, 7,-9,-8,5,9; Sanders d. Donna Sakai, 10,8,1.
Over 60 Women's Singles - Final: Barbara Kaminsky d. Suzanna Sanders, 8,-8,-10,4,7; SF: Kaminsky d. Danuta Andrzejewska, 4,5,-11,7; Sanders d. Dorothea Taschner, 1,5,3.
Over 70 Singles - Final: Frank Dwelly d. Grady Gordon, -5,6,5,-10,2; SF: Dwelly d. Lynwood Smith, 10,7,-5,8; Gordon d. Tim Boggan, -8,7,12,-8,8.
Over 75 Singles - Final: Grady Gordon d. Frank Dwelly, 7,6,6; SF: Gordon d. Louis Radzeli, 3,4,8; Dwelly d. Stanley Falke, 3,5,6.
Over 80 Singles - Final: Frank Dwelly d. Harry Deschamps, 4,3,7; SF: Dwelly d. Joe Baltrus, 6,11,6; Deschamps d. Louis Radzeli, 10,4,6.
Over 40 Doubles - Final: Gary Osmanoff/Boris Rosenberg d. Barry Dattel/Lily Yip, -8,8,13,9; SF: Osmanoff/Rosenberg d. John Allen/Scott Preiss, 4,-2,-9,9,2; Dattel/Yip d. Richard Hicks/Hank McCoullum, 12,2,5.
Over 50 Doubles - Final: George Brathwaite/Dave Sakai d. Lim Ming Chui/Changping Duan, 6,6,-3,14; SF: Brathwaite/Sakai d. Richard Hicks/Hank McCoullum, 6,9,3; Chui/Duan d. Bin Hai Chu/Carlos Estrada, -8,7,8,6.
Over 60 Doubles - Final: Richard Hicks/Marvin Leff d. Alan Grambo/Jerry Marcum, 7,6,8; SF: Hicks/Leff d. Patrick Gray/William Durbin, 2,8,2; Grambo/Marcum d. George Brathwaite/Bard Brenner, 3,3,9.
Over 70 Doubles - Final: Tim Boggan/Frank Dwelly d. Grady Gordon/Dick Evans, 6,10,-7,7; SF: Boggan/Dwelly d. Stanley Falke/Carl Simons, 5,6,5; Gordon/Evans d. Robert Johnson/J.M.Cincotta, 6,-5,2,2.
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