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...most exciting contest was that in which Richard W. Gilder '36 bested John G. Cornish '33 in a five game sidewall backhand speed duel...
...score when the seventh chukker started was West 8, East 4. East got the ball at the throwin. Tall Winston Guest sent a long pass to Mills for a goal. A moment later he made the longest hit of the game (100 yd.) to Phipps, who scored with a backhand. Post a minute later scored on a free shot after a foul. Guest got the ball at the next throwin, took it down the field, tied the score at 8-all. Before the West could recover from its surprise, Phipps had scored two more goals and the period was over...
...Experts decided that the most promising young player in the field was 22-year-old Carolin Babcock of Los Angeles who has an unusually powerful backhand, volleys better than Helen Wills Moody, lacks experience and confidence. In the singles she beat England's No. 4, Katherine Stammers, 6-3, 2-6, 6-4, then lost to Helen Jacobs...
Against Perry, Wood was wild in the first set, made no effort to prevent Perry from winning it, 6-1. Whisking his well-timed backhand down the sidelines, he won the next two, 6-4, 7-5. After the rest period, Perry evened the match, 6-0, while Wood gathered his forces for the fifth set. The moment that settled the match for last week's spectators at Wimbledon, the moment which will be remembered as the climax of a tournament that lasted for 13 months and in which 27 countries entered teams, came in the fifth set. Perry...
After Shields, playing wobbly tennis, had lost to Crawford, 6-1, 6-2, 12-10, McGrath and Wood walked out on Wimbledon's centre court last week. McGrath, brushing his awkward backhand into the corners of Wood's court, took the first two sets, 7-5, 6-4. Wood stopped smiling, spit out his chewing gum and ran off the third, 6-1. After the ten-minute rest, he still seemed the more confident of the two. When he led at 5-2, it looked as if he had the match well in hand. Then a footfault judge...