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Wimbledon champion Billie Jean King tactfully holds down the net, so that 55-year-old Bobby Riggs can easily clear it during meeting at an east side tennis club here July 11th. Returning in triumph from London, Mrs. King will meet Riggs in a $100,000 winner-take-all tennis match, it was announced July 11th.
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