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...caught the Bruins of Brown University unawares and romped through their ranks for a touchdown. And Pop Nairne, the Poly Prep star who has yet to scale the heights of Dartmouth gridiron fame, and Capt, Kenney, a bruising blocker, cagey quarter, and Gordon Bennett, a tackle already mentioned by Allison Danzig as a candidate for All-American honors...
Major tennis upsets are rare and seldom completely satisfactory. Last week's was no exception. After it was over, experts wondered how much of it was due to the fact that Allison was playing better than ever before in his life, and how much to what happened to Perry in the seventh game of the first set. The first rally in that game ended when Perry fell flat on his face chasing a drive he could not reach. When he got up, he grinned to indicate that he was not hurt but thereafter throughout the match he was noticeably...
...weather-beaten, drawling, lantern-jawed Texan, Wilmer Allison has been one of the ten best tennists in the U. S. since 1928. He has been a member of six Davis Cup teams, has been a finalist at Wimbledon and Forest Hills. Nonetheless, although he had won four doubles titles, until last week he had never won a major singles championship. This season, most critics thought from Allison's performance abroad, when he lasted only one round at Wimbledon, lost to Perry, Austin and von Cramm in Davis Cup play, that, at 30, he had passed his peak...
...Stammers took care of Carolin Babcock in the quarterfinals. Sarah Palfrey Fabyan took care of Kay Stammers the next day. On the afternoon of the Allison-Perry match, to which her characteristic bad luck made her own triumph an anticlimax, Helen Jacobs quickly and calmly took care of Sarah Palfrey Fabyan herself...
Married. Frederick John Perry, 26, British tennist; and Helen Vinson, 27, cinemactress, daughter of a Texas oil executive; day after Tennist Perry lost to Wilmer Allison in the semi-finals of the U. S. Singles Championship at Forest Hills; by a Justice of the Peace, in Harrison...