Winning Ways

Said a sputtering BBC announcer: "It makes me furious--absolutely furious!" At Nottingham, England, in the famed Test Matches (Britain v. Australia), an Australian cricketer was sending down "bumpers" (a beanball type of bowling that bounced up into the batsman's face). Every time he bowled, the audience cut loose with the British equivalent of Brooklynese. Even the tea-sippers in the pavilion joined in the vulgar booing. What was cricket coming to?

After the match, the embarrassed chairman of the Nottinghamshire Club apologized to Don Bradman, Australia's cricketing Babe Ruth, for the crowd's behavior. Bradman could afford to be gracious. His bully boys, with the help of bumpers, were leading England (which hadn't had its second innings yet) by 478 runs.

Winners elsewhere last week:

P: At Wimbledon, wearing a new crew haircut (he once used ribbons to tie up his blond thatch), Sweden's Lennart Bergelin, 23, tore into top-seeded Frank Parker. It produced the tennis upset of the year. Down went Parker, in five sets. But Bergelin's new look wasn't enough to get him by hard-hitting Bob Falkenburg in the quarterfinals. The Swede fell before Falkenburg's big serve, 6-4, 6-2, 3-6, 6-4.

P: At Kalamazoo, Southern California became king of collegiate baseball by edging out Yale, two games to one. Yale also reached the finals last year only to lose out to California.

P: At Bloomfield, N.J., fully recovered from the mumps, dogged Gil Dodds ran the fastest mile of the outdoor season (4:08.8) on a water-logged track. His long-range objective: outfooting half a dozen Swedes, all of whom could do 4:04 or better, in the Olympic games.

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