"If I ever get him over a barrel," said Big Jake Kramer, "I'll beat him fifty straight matches without easing off." But things didn't work that way. Jake got the jitters in his pro tennis debut at Madison Square Garden, and lost badly to Pro Champ Bobby Riggs (TIME, Jan. 5). In Pittsburgh, Jake caught a cold, and lost again to Bobby. Then Jake got back some of his confidence by winning match No. 3 in Cleveland. Last week, after their tenth match in the tenth city on their U.S. tour, Jake was beginning to look better. Bobby Riggs, however, wasn't...
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