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- SPORTLIGHT

N INTERESTING article in
the Australian Tribune dis-
cussing the respective merits

of Lew Hoad and Richard Gon- -

zales is worth reprinting. Here
it is:
‘Like a procession of others
before him, young Lew Hoad
is learning the hard way~that
Richard Gonzales is the best
tennis player in the world.
But Gonzales, w whose serve
has been measured at 113 miles
an hour, never took a lesson
and didn’t hold a racquet until
at 13 he was given one —
more of a toy than a racquet
—which cost half a dollar.

Gonzales’ Mexican - Ameri- >

can family in Los Angeles had
no money to spare for such
luxuries as sports equipment.

At 14, young Richard first
picked up a real racquet and
started hitting balls on a
school court.

It was not until after a per-
iod in the Navy (in, which he
enlisted at 17) that he took
up the game with real serious-
ness.

Yet, at 21, as US. national
champion, he was signed up
as a professional by Kramer,

Since then Gonzales, now 28
has shattered one after an-
other. of the amateur champ-
ions* who- have “turned hon-
est” (as some cynics about am-
ateur expense accounts put it.)

First Sedgman, then Trabert
then Rosewall.and now Hoad
—three of them Wimbledon
champions, the other (Rose-
wall) twice a  .Wimbledon
finalist — have been pound-
ed almost off the courts by
the six foot, three inch Gon-
zales,

To rise as Gonzales did in
the amateur ranks was not easy

October 11, 1957 —

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for a Mexican - American lad
with always the darkest skin
in the locker room ‘in the club
houses and on the courts.

Tennis, at its upper levels
in many countries, has a “blue
blood” tradition.

Baron von Cramm, “from
Nazi Germany, found no bar-
riers against him in interna-
tional tournaments. But it was
not until 1950 ihat the first
Negro was allowed to play on
the sacrosanct grass of Forest
Hills, scene of the biggest U.S.
tournaments. (That Negro was
Althea Gibson, who fast June
triumphed at Wimbledon).

. Cold-shoulder discrimina-
tion against him was one reason
why Francisco Segura of Ec-
uador turned professional 10
years ago, before reaching his
neak as an amateur.

Though Gonzales encounter-
ed no open discrimination,
there were overtones.

The very name “Pancho” put
on Gonzales (his name is Rich-
ard and he was called Dick
until the sports writers re-
christenéd him) and also on

Segura is aciually racial in’

character. It is part of the
subtle, sometimes even uncon-
scious, arsenal of “pure white”
supremacy. -

_ Gonzales didn’t wait for
Wimbledon or Davis Cup tri-
umphs before turning profes-
sional. He and his. young
bride needed money too badly.

Against a Kramer at his top
Gonzales went down on. his
first professional. tour.

But that was seven years
ago. Now it’s a matter of the
others of the troupe battling
it out between them in their
tournaments to see who can

get the second-prize money. ’

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PAGE 11

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