Monday, Jul. 25, 1955

Scoreboard

P:Frenchmen celebrated Bastille Day everywhere but on the fairways of La Boulie golf course near suburban Versailles. There Byron Nelson, 43, the tall, greying Texan who won the U.S. Open championship back in 1939, showed his old touch on the greens and his old straight skill off the tee, to take the French Open championship with a 17-under-par 271. Last American to take the title: Walter Hagen in 1920.

P:Ever since his This Week magazine article admitting that he had accepted pay for playing amateur tennis (TIME, May 30), former U.S. Singles Champion Jack Kramer has been getting the cold shoulder from the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association. To make it official, the proper officials of the U.S.L.T.A. have fired Big Jake from his job as coach of the Junior Davis Cup squad, a training group that was originally his brain child. The new coach: Don Budge, another pro, who was U.S. Singles champ in 1937 and '38.

P: Half a mile from the finish in the last of nine races for the Syce Cup and the Long Island Sound women's sailing championship, pint-sized Toni Monetti, 18, who won the midget title only five years ago, messed up a jibe and lost most of the lead she had built up on the first leg. Without wasting a moment, the Skidmore College sophomore went forward to untangle the sheets of her Lightning's big spinnaker. She finished in time to sail home third, earning just enough points to bring the Syce Cup home.

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