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...osteopaths. After dropping the first game, Tilden took the next four. In the hottest fight of the evening, Vines ran the set to 4-all. then to 6-all before Tilden could stop him. From that point on Tilden hammered away at his opponent's weak point-his backhand. He pranced back & forth across the court, placed his shots so that Vines was rarely in position to return them full strength. Then he nearly ran the gangling legs off Vines, finally had him missing on his forehand, and making costly double faults. After it was over...
...father playing there. At 13 he learned to play. At 15, Walter Merrill Hall quit school, went to work as a Wall Street runner to help support his mother and grandmother. But every morning, every evening he practiced his tennis, developed a powerful forehand drive, a smashing backhand "down the line." At 24, Walter Merrill Hall was national clay court doubles champion. At 30 he came within two points of beating Bill Tilden in the national singles, might have done so if rain had not blurred his spectacles. At 45, last summer, he won the New Hampshire State championship. Last...
...even when the footing is dry and firm. After winning without difficulty, 6-3, 6-3, 7-5, Crawford & McGrath came up against the newly organized team of sly George Lott and towering Lester Stoefen. Stoefen & Lott concentrated their attack on 17-year-old McGrath's two-handed backhand. He missed 14 out of 17 chances in the first set, improved later but not enough to play offensive tennis against the fastest combination in the tournament. Their victory-6-2, 7-5, 7-5-put Lott & Stoefen in the semi-finals against young Jack Tidball & Gene Mako...
Crawford's first return was a sliced backhand to Vines's baseline. Vines netted. On the next point, Crawford blocked the serve. Vines drove to the back hand corner and Crawford lobbed so skilfully that, trapped as he ran in, Vines could barely get back in time to push the ball weakly into the net. At 0-30, Vines served one fault and Crawford, forcing the rally on his second ball, passed him at the net. Vines was astounded. He shambled back to the baseline, served once more, netted Crawford's return to end the match...
...year. His victory over Vines was only a little more alarming, from the point of view of U. S. chances in the Davis Cup, than his defeat of Cochet in the French hard court championships a month ago. Red-faced, beefy, tireless and, except for the fact that his backhand is more defensive than a world-champion's should be. without a noticeable weakness on the court, he used to lose his matches with his temper until a year or so ago. Last winter, grown calmer and more wily, he won both of Australia's major tournaments, beating...