THE TENNIS FUTURE IN KALAMAZOO

August 17, 1959

There were free movies, dances and picnics, but mostly there was plain hard work for the 244 youths entered in the Junior and Boys' tennis championships at Kalamazoo, Mich. "I don't have much time for social life," said Dennis Ralston, an earnest 17-year-old from Bakersfield, Calif. "You get homesick and lonesome, but if you want to win, that's the way it's got to be." And, eventually, that was the way it was for Ralston, whose singleness of purpose carried him to the Junior finals and to victory last week over Bill Lenoir of Tucson, Ariz. James Beste of Baton Rouge, La., meanwhile, won the Boys' division over Rodney Kop of Honolulu. Said Rolla Anderson, chairman of the tournament: "The U.S. tennis future looks just great."