Sport: Scoreboard, Jul. 29, 1957

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¶ When Pro Tennis Champ Pancho Gonzales, 29, heard that he and Lew Hoad, 22, Australia's recent convert to play-for-pay, were scheduled for last week's Tournament of Champions at Forest Hills' West Side Tennis Club, he intimated that Wimbledon Champ Hoad was not yet ready for big-time tennis (TIME, July 22). Pancho was right. First, Old Pros Ken Rosewall and Tony Trabert beat Hoad, then Gonzales whipped the new boy, 9-7, 6-4, 3-6, 6-3. ¶ Sailing in the Trans-Pacific yacht race from the Los Angeles coast to Honolulu, Skipper Charles Ullman frantically hunted for a winning wind, first tacked south with his soft. sloop Legend, then north, then south again, finally found a fair wind, nipped across the finish line off Diamond Head last week with a winning corrected time of 11 days 41 min. 41 sec., logging 2,407 miles over the 2,225-mile course. "We went looking for the fastest winds and quickest course to Honolulu," noted Nimble Navigator Ullman. ¶ In the women's finals of the U.S. Clay Court championships in Chicago last week, Wimbledon Champ Althea Gibson, 29, aiming squarely at next month's U.S. singles championships, overpowered California's Darlene Hard, her Wimbledon opponent, 6-2, 6-3. In the men's finals, aging (33) Vic Seixas downed Herb Flam (28) in a pattyball party by the score of 1-6, 8-6, 6-1, 6-3.