Before flying off to South America on a tennis tour, Big Jake Kramer had a few odds & ends to clean up. One of them was the National Professional Tennis Championship at Forest Hills, N.Y. He didn't feel very keen about it: he didn't dare lose it, yet there was little added glory for him in winning it. And the $1,900 prize money meant nothing to a man who had grossed $87,000 in his first season as a pro. In this frame of mind, Kramer last week nearly got his comeuppance.
First, after breezing through two easy opponents, he ran into a...
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