Sport: Bright Australian Future

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Ouster & Outlaster. The double upset by the youngsters left four Australians in the round of eight (McGregor defaulted in the first round because of a pulled muscle). Next day, thanks to the luck of the draw, Sedgman ousted his teammate, Hoad; Mulloy, playing one of the best games of his career, outlasted Rosewall jn five sets. The other semifinalists: Rose, Aussie No. 3, who whipped Dick Savitt, the U.S.'s No. 2, in straight sets; ig-year-old Ham Richardson, the U.S.'s No. 7, who outlasted Straight Clark in five sets.

Again the luck of the draw worked to pit the Australians and Americans against teammates. Sedgman whipped Rose in straight sets; Mulloy outfought and outthought Richardson, also in straight sets, to go on to the final.

In land-rich Australia, where tennis courts sprout in people's backyards, the game, along with cricket, is a national pastime. Youngsters are well coached as soon as they are old enough to toddle; the tennis season is ten months long. Only the once-famed California tennis factory, which produced such stars as Don Budge, Bobby Riggs, Ted Schroeder and Jack Kramer, can match the Aussie output. But the California factory has obviously slipped a cog. The U.S.'s weak answer last week to the Aussie production line: naming Seixas player-captain of the Davis Cup team, with Richardson as nucleus.

In the women's final, all U.S., Defending Champion Maureen Connolly, still only 17, won her second title by outlasting Doris Hart, 6-3, 7-5. Onetime Wimbledon Champ Hart, who had already failed twice to win the U.S. title after reaching the final, won huge applause from the fans. Champion Connolly joined the exclusive company of Helen Wills, Alice Marble and Pauline Betz, the only other women to win both Wimbledon and U.S. crowns the same year.