Sport: Seesaw

To Southern Californians, the first 8,000 miles of barnstorming by Bobby Riggs and Big Jake Kramer didn't count. The real test was how well they did at home (both come from the Los Angeles area). Last week in Los Angeles, 6,529 jurors, including Donald Budge, Bill Tilden, the Bogarts and the Durochers, watched cocky little Bobby Riggs tear into Big Jake.

He slammed back Kramer's seemingly unretrievable smashes. Though he once declined all invitations to the net, he now rushed it incessantly. He had found that Kramer's weakest spot was his backhand. When Riggs...

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