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...days of the National Tennis championship at Forest Hills (L. I.), spectators more knowing than those who come later in the week stroll about among the outside courts, comparing notes on familiar players, making a patter of applause that punctuates the cool syncopation of tennis balls bouncing against turf and strings. There was plenty of material for sideline talk last week. Ellsworth Vines Jr., defending his championship, and Henri Cochet, keyed to avenge the beating Vines gave him at Roland Garros stadium, had first-round byes. . . . Bunny Austin, England's No. i player, wearing a floppy white duck...
...which had paid her expenses abroad to play at Wimbledon, expecting she would return to make the U. S. championship a financial success, was piqued. There were reports that if Mrs. Moody went abroad again next year she would pay her own way. Meanwhile, on the green blanket of turf that lies between the railroad tracks and the neat suburban cottages of Forest Hills, galleries slimmer than they have been for the last five years saw a week of pleasant ladies' tennis that contained only one major surprise...
...There are no good turf courts in France. The courts at Roland Garros Stadium, designed by Charles Bouhana, are of red clay much like En-Tout-Cas ("all weather") courts which are made in the U. S. and elsewhere by En-Tout-Cas Co. Tennis ball specifications for size, weight, thickness of cover are the same all over the world; but because most European players prefer a slower bounce, Dunlap Co., which makes most tennis balls abroad, uses a rubber composition that gives a less lively bounce than the composition used by U. S. manufacturers. European tennis balls last...
...manganese concession in Russia. In 1919, six years out of Yale, Son Harriman formed W. A. Harriman & Co. which conducted a large-scale investment banking business. Hard-working young Mr. Harriman, attractive and sociable (two years ago he married Marie Norton Whitney, art-wise first wife of his turf friend Cornelius Vanderbilt ["Sonny"] Whitney), did not make a raging success of the firm. Its financial bulwarking made it an appropriate party last year to a merger with Brown Bros. & Co., forming Brown Bros. Harriman & Co. Another Harriman venture is Harriman & Co., a small firm doing a lucrative business in commercial...
...Harvard varsity polo team departs tonight for the Rye Turf and Polo Club, Rye, New York, where they expect to win the polo Intercollegiates. The malletmen are accompanied by Captain Frederick D. Sharpe, coach, N. W. Kimball '32, manager, and F. L. Baehler, Jr. '34, assistant manager...