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...Marie Dressier (MGM) 2) Janet Gaynor (Fox) 3) Joan Crawford (MGM) 4) Charles Farrell (Fox) 5) Greta Garbo (MGM) 6) Norma Shearer (MGM) 7) Wallace Beery (MGM) 8) Clark Gable (MGM) 9) Will Rogers (Fox) 10) Joe E. Brown (Warner...
...tournament he played in, wound up with the U. S. championship at Forest Hills. This year he set out to perfect his chop, to be as versatile as Tilden. Not until the last rounds at Wimbledon did he get back firmly on his driving game. Then he beat Jack Crawford of Australia and Henry Wilfred ("Bunny") Austin of England on successive days with tennis that even Wimbledon has never seen surpassed...
...exciting entrant in the tournament with the possible exception of Henri Cochet, who was put out in the second round. When all the other U. S. players including Sidney B. Wood Jr. the defending champion, had been eliminated, Vines strolled out to play his semi-final match against Jack Crawford of Australia...
...dark afternoon. A grey drizzle made the court slippery and the bad footing seemed to bother Crawford. It did not bother Vines. After a week of good but not brilliant tennis, he suddenly found his game. His backhand, weak the day before, was suddenly a magnificent offensive stroke. His drives lashed the uttermost corners of Crawford's back court. Crawford said afterward that Vines's first serve "seemed to hit the court the same instant it left the racket." Vines followed it to the net and smashed Crawford's returns so hard that the ball kicked...
Vines was mistaken. In the other half of a polyglot semifinal, an elegant little Englishman, Bunny Austin, had beaten an acrobatic little Japanese, Jiro Sato. Against Austin, Vines was just as good as he had been against Crawford. Their match was over in 45 minutes, 6-4, 6-2, 6-0. Austin watched Vines's last serve, an ace, go past, then ran up to shake hands. Said he: "I couldn't play against that...