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Last week-end the court of claims met at Forest Hills, L. I. Pretender Crawford's cohorts were weakened by an attack of intestinal flu which had laid low Adrian Quist, and an infected right hand which hampered Vivian McGrath, the curly-haired eccentric who plays a two-fisted backhand. Left at Crawford's side was only blond young John Bromwich who, even more eccentric than McGrath, is ambidextrous as well as two-fisted...
Serving murderously, stroking like precise lightning, the attenuated, red-haired Budge polished off Crawford 6-1, 6-3, 6-2. Indefatigable little Grant had small trouble with 18-year-old Bromwich, 6-2, 7-5, 6-1. When Budge & Gene Mako demolished Crawford & McGrath 7-5, 6-1, 8-6 in the doubles next day, the issue was settled. The singles matches that followed-Budge v. Bromwich and Grant v. Crawford-were purely matters of form. In one, Bromwich managed to get Australia its first set while Budge was beating...
When Australia's Vivian McGrath appeared on the international tennis scene four years ago, experts could not have been more astonished had he been a kangaroo. For all backhand shots McGrath held his racket with both hands. For a first-class tennist to do such a thing was so unthinkable that tennis experts, instead of trying to explain it, simply regarded McGrath as an antipodean freak. Last week this point of view was confirmed when in Mexico City an Australian team played Mexico in the first round of the Davis Cup tournament. On the team was another Australian...
...freak tennis player, Australia's John Bromwich (pronounced Brumage) makes McGrath's methods look banal. He is ambidextrous. He serves with his right hand, switches to his left for shots on that side, plays shots on his right side with both hands (see cut). Like 21-year-old McGrath, Bromwich is not only a freak but a prodigy. He was just 16 when he won the South Australian championship two years ago, beating Adrian Quist and Don Turnbull, seasoned Australian internationalists. In Mexico City last week Bromwich's Davis Cup debut was a severe thrashing for Mexico...
...Robert W. Emmouns 3rd '21; 1920--Arthur J.Conlon'22; 1921--Arthur J. Conlon '22; 1922--Arthur J. Conlon '22; 1923--George Owen Jr. '23; 1924--C. Lee Todd Jr. '26; 1925 and 1926--Isadore Zarakov '27; 1927--Howard W. Burns '28; 1928--John P. Chase '28; 1929--Edward H. McGrath '31; 1930--Edward H. McGrath '31; 1931--Benjamin H. Ticknor '31; 1932--Edmund A. Mays Jr. '32; 1933--Charles J. Nevin '34; 1934--Charles J. Nevin '34; 1935--Thomas H. Bilodeau '37; 1936--Thomas H. Bilodeau...