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...England's Davis Cup tennis team (Perry, Austin, Lee, Hughes): the European zone finals, by healing the Australian team 3-to-2 (Crawford, McGrath, Quist, Turnbull) at Wimbledon. England. This week in Paris the English team meets the U. S. team in the interzone finals. ¶Ben Jeby: a 15-round fight with Young Terry of Trenton, N. J., in which Jeby was defending his world's middleweight championship; in Newark. ¶Inlander, owned by socialite Mrs. Dodge Sloane of Manhattan: the Arlington Classic, in which he muddily spattered up from fourth place in the stretch, to finish...
...delivery touched $1.27¼ a bushel. But wheat was not the sensation of the pit. Rye outdid it. Rye (unfavored by Government restriction measures) touched $1.08½ for December delivery-jumped 23? a bushel in a week. Talk of a corner in rye by Dr. Edward A. Crawford (TIME, June 19) was resumed. Also there was talk of a rye shortage due to 1) expected use of more rye flour in bread as wheat prices rise; 2) expected large demand for rye by distillers. In one day 7,000,000 bu. of rye were sold. (Total U. S. rye crop...
Matches like these-to say nothing of the coat with a fur collar which Queen Mary wore on even the warmest days- gave spectators at the All-England tennis tournament last week enough to look at before the final. But it was the final, between Vines and Crawford, with Vines favored to win, that produced the longest, loudest cheers that anyone could remember at Wimbledon...
...serves scarring the turf, seldom lost more than a point or two in his service games; sometimes he won without using more than four balls. Even when after winning the first he dropped the second and third sets, he seemed clearly in control of the match, waiting for Crawford to tire. When he came out for the fourth with a new racket and began to hit his flat drives even harder than before, it looked more than ever as though Crawford was on the run. When Vines took the set and they started the last one with 23 games each...
...Crawford's first return was a sliced backhand to Vines's baseline. Vines netted. On the next point, Crawford blocked the serve. Vines drove to the back hand corner and Crawford lobbed so skilfully that, trapped as he ran in, Vines could barely get back in time to push the ball weakly into the net. At 0-30, Vines served one fault and Crawford, forcing the rally on his second ball, passed him at the net. Vines was astounded. He shambled back to the baseline, served once more, netted Crawford's return to end the match...