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...Forest Hills, rain delayed the national singles championship after a first round in which the closest thing to a surprise was a set dropped by Lott to Herbert Bowman...
...final. In the final of the French hard court championship, he finished Henri Cochet in short straight sets. In July he won at Wimbledon in a final that some experts considered the greatest tennis match ever played, against Ellsworth Vines. John Herbert ("Jack") Crawford needed only a victory at Forest Hills this week for a clean sweep of the world's four biggest tournaments, a preeminence in tennis that no player has attained since Tilden...
...asked him last spring whether he expected the Davis Cup to go back to the U. S.: "I expect the Davis Cup will go back to Americawhen we take it there on our way to Australia." If Vines and Crawford play each other in the final at Forest Hills, the match will be like another between a hard-serving Californian and a steady Australian-when Brookes played Maurice McLoughlin in the Davis Cup matches at Forest Hills in 1914 and lost, after one of the longest first sets on record, 15-17, 3-6, 3-6. Since Tilden...
...player of 1933. He beat McGrath. then Allison and Vines, then Cochet and Merlin in this year's Davis Cup matches. If he gets what he calls a "good win:" over Crawford, whom he has not played this year, it will be in the final at Forest Hills, because they will doubtless be in opposite halves of the draw. For the last five years, the winner of the Pacific South West tournament has won the U. S. title the next year. Perry won the first last year...
...racquet with both hands when hitting off his left side, is a month younger than Parker. Son of a Mudgee, N. S. W., farmer, he beat Vines in Australia last winter, spry little Jiro Satoh in last summer's Davis Cup matches. Unlikely to get far at Forest Hills, the experience will help him become, with Crawford, the mainstay of Australia's Davis Cup team...