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...Nobody will give Perry a run." Wilmer Allison of Austin, Tex., who thus expressed last month the gist of expert opinion on the U. S. Singles Championship, flatly contradicted himself at Forest Hills, N. Y. last week. When Allison and Fred Perry, world's No. 1 amateur tennist for the past two years, started to rally before their match in the semifinals, the crowd dubiously hoped that Allison would be able to do as well as he had a year ago, when he carried Perry to five sets. No one expected him to do more. When they left...
...playing better than ever before in his life, took one set and twice missed the point that would have given him another before he lost to Champion Perry, 4-6, 6-4, 6-8, 0-6. Three days after the schedule had called for the championships to end, Perry, Allison, Budge, Grant, Wood remained in the men's single; Jacobs and Fabyan in the women...
...third time when they ran through Dorothy Andrus and Carolin Babcock, 6-4, 6-2. The most important match of the week-final of the men's doubles-turned out to be a show-down between the two U. S. Davis Cup pairs of John Van Ryn & Wilmer Allison and Donald Budge & Gene Mako. It lasted over two hours and when it ended Van Ryn & Allison had regained the title they held...
...Wilmer Allison is ranked No. 1 in U. S. tennis today largely because he was the finalist who carried Perry to five sets at Forest Hills last September. A sunburned, drawling Texan who has been in the first ten since 1928, Allison's main assets are a well-rounded assortment of dependable, aggressive strokes, a good tennis head and a desire to make some reparation for his calamitous failure in last month's Davis Cup challenge round (TIME, Aug. 5). Equally impressive are his drawbacks. He has never beaten Perry. At 30, he finds two five-set singles...
Gravest defect in the championship chances of Wood, Grant, Shields, Menzel and Allison next week is the fact that none of the five has shown noticeable improvement during the past two years. In this respect the sixth player in any well-advised list of U. S. hopes to win the 54th Singles Championship is certainly their superior. Redhaired, freckled, 20-year-old Donald Budge of Oakland, Calif. has never beaten Perry but he came close to doing so last year in the Pacific Coast final when he forced him to five sets. His performances at home and abroad this summer...