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...body of a young French ex-soldier; his rigid limbs were garmented in white; beside him reposed his "Blue Devil" Tarn O' Shanter. He, Jean Borotra, French Davis Cup competitor, had just been smitten unconscious by a tennis ball rebounding from the racquet of the Australian Gerald Patterson in the fourth set of an international doubles match at Forest Hills, L. I. On the day previous, Patterson had beaten Lacoste in the singles, Borotra had trounced Anderson. Thus, with the team score tied, much had depended on the doubles, and the chances for French victory on the work...
...Kinsey brothers, defending titleholders, bowed in straight sets to the superior daring of Vincent Richards and R. Norris Williams. Next day a cloud of witnesses saw these two put out Johnston and Griffin, 6-2, 8-10, 6-4, 11-9, in the semifinal, to face, Gerald Patterson and John Hawkes of Australia...
...Patterson was wild. He slammed balls into the net, he slammed them out-not out by one or two inches, but by many yards. Hawkes was slow. Williams and Richards winked at each other. "What, the crowd wondered, gives these Australians the impression they can play tennis?" Patterson himself was beginning: to wonder. He had hit the ball hard before. It had gone out. He hit it twice as hard. It went in. His Partner picked up heart, and assisted by the errors of erratic Williams, they ran out the set 8-6 added the next to their score...
...Brookline. Gerald Patterson for Australia - a tall sleek giant, epitomizing in his person all the large-limbed grace and slow-footedness of the western peoples-op-posed Takeichi Harada for Japan, a man like a brown jumping-jack. Patterson drove his mighty shots into the net, swacked them over the backline, was tidily defeated but his teammates, Anderson and Hawkes, won all their matches, eliminated Japan from the Davis Cup tryouts. Australia was scheduled to oppose France to see which will face...
...Montreal, the Australians Patterson and Hawkes fulfilled expectations by their easy elimination of the Canadian team, Crocker and Wright...