The other 127 contestants who entered Wimbledon's All-England men's singles might as well have stayed home. There apparently was just no tennis amateur anywhere in the world who could give California's 25-year-old Jack Kramer a workout. Before leaving the U.S., Kramer had taken the precaution of having lamp treatments for a gimpy "tennis elbow" and last week was in top trim.
So easily did he breeze through the first five matches that London's Daily Telegraph headlined, "Kramer Loses a Set," when he dropped one to Australia's Dinny Pails in the semifinals. It was the only one of 22 sets he lost all...
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