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...lost in the Timagami region of Ontario. The two law students left August 26 on a canoe trip with food for two weeks and Franchot was expected home for the wedding of his sister last Saturday. When he failed to appear the Canadian government was notified but forest rangers in the Timagami Reserve have so far failed to locate the pair. Airplanes and all available help were being enlisted today in the continued search and friends, recalling the fact that Franchot had been into the reservation before, expressed hope that they would soon turn...
...Although he liked it much less than soccer, he soon contrived to be his country's No. 1 player. This season he carried Perry to five sets at Wimbledon and beat Crawford in the European Zone Davis Cup final. If Perry, the defending champion, plays through his field at Forest Hills and becomes the only foreigner except Lacoste to win the U. S. title twice, it will be one of the most brilliant chapters in one of the most extraordinary histories the game has ever known...
...five "blokes" whom Perry complimented anonymously last week, two will be absent from Forest Hills?Australia's Jack Crawford, who was too weary to play any more after the Davis Cup interzone final, and Great Britain's "Bunny" Austin who dislikes the strain of a long tournament. With these exceptions the names on the West Side Club scoreboards include nearly all the best players in the world. Topping the list are the members of the U. S. Davis Cup team, Sidney Wood, Frank Shields, George Lott and Lester Stoefen. Experts wondered how o rate the chances of Berkeley Bell, once...
Last year in the final of the U. S. Singles at Forest Hills, Perry met Jack Crawford who held the Australian, French and All-England titles and was expected to add the U. S. title. When Crawford lost that match and when Ellsworth Vines turned professional shortly afterward, Perry became indisputably the best amateur tennist in the world. Since then he has beaten Crawford five times. After defeating him in the Wimbledon final this year, he put the finishing touches on his record by beating both Sidney Wood and Frank Shields in the singles match of the Davis Cup challenge...
While U. S. amateur tennists were preparing for Forest Hills last week, professionals were holding their National Championship in Chicago. William Tatem Tilden II was abroad, practicing for the World's Championship next month in Paris. In the semifinals, Ellsworth Vines, who has this year earned some $50,000 from the game, was beaten by Hans Nusslein of Germany. In the final, Nusslein beat Karel Kozeluh of Czechoslovakia...