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...England's Davis Cup team, and defeated Jack Crawford in their first meeting at Bournemouth. That autumn Perry toured the U. S. and South America with a British team, winning the Argentina championship. The next year he reached the semi-finals at Wimbledon, defeated Sidney Wood and Jean Borotra in Davis Cup play, beat seven of the first test players of the U. S., was defeated by Ellsworth Vines in the semi-finals of the U. S. Singles...
...Wimbledon final this year, he put the finishing touches on his record by beating both Sidney Wood and Frank Shields in the singles match of the Davis Cup challenge round (TIME, Aug. 6). On the tennis court, Perry's demeanor is more like that of Jean Borotra than of any other player of the last decade. He uses nervous, snapping strokes, starts his racket near the ball, curtails his follow-through. His most outstanding shot is a forehand drive executed on a rising ball as he runs toward the net. He volleys with more power than finesse, serves hard...
When the U. S. indoor tennis championships started last week in Manhattan, several players looked good enough to win. First to fall was Jean Borotra of France. Declared the four-time winner: "I am getting too old. It looks like ping-pong next for me." George Lott, who limped with a sore toe, and Andre Merlin, French indoor titlist, went out in the quarterfinals. Frank Shields, No. 1 ranking U. S. player, and Sidney Wood, No. 6, were dropped in the semifinals...
...moments later, Crawford had the set. With judicial composure he strolled to the marquee where his plump wife was smiling, chatted for ten minutes, while Perry went to change his flannels for ducks that would flap less in the wind. With a crowd to watch him, Perry, like Borotra, gives an impression of being debonair, lighthearted, only incidentally concerned with winning. In reality, even more than most crack players, he is deadly serious about tennis. Determined to win one important championship in 1933, he had trained a whole year for last week's final. Crawford, despite his sturdy appearance...
...Jean Borotra and Jacques Brugnon, still probably the second best doubles team in the world, beat George Patrick Hughes and H. G. N. Lee, who had been put on the British side to give Perry a rest, 6-3, 8-6, 6-2. Cochet, who had been practicing desperately since his first match, beat Austin in five sets 5-7, 6-4, 4-6, 6-4, 6-4. This made the score two-all and gave an irrelevant importance to the last match which everyone knew that Perry could not lose. It was this certainty-contrasted with the more amazing...