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...than ever before. Her legs, still eloquent, were leaner. She played recklessly and, when she occasionally lost a point withheld her gesticulations. She defeated Miss Kathleen McKane of England, 6-1, 6-2; proceeded, with her partner, Mile. Vlasto, to win the women's doubles; and, with M. Brugnon, the mixed doubles-a total of three titles in two days...
They were not Tilden and Johnston. They were not Borotra and Brugnon. They were much younger than that- slim high school lads in their teens. But to them the match was infinitely more important than any that was ever played at Forest Hills or Wimbledon. And they played ably- serving swiftly, slamming hard- there in a Manhattan armory, for the national junior indoor tennis championship. The larger of the two, Henry C. Johnson Jr., of Newton Academy (Waban, Mass.), was behind but wearing well, pulling up. The frail one, Horace G. Orser, of George Washington High School (Manhattan), had fatigued...
...winner to challenge the U. S., present holder of the Cup. The Australian menace is felt to be more deadly than the French. The latter, winners of the European Zone tests, landed in Manhattan last week in the persons of Réné LaCoste, Jean Borotra, Jacques Brugnon and Alain J. Gerbault (famed rather for crossing the Atlantic last Summer alone in a small sail boat, than for his tennis...
Davis Cup. Australia succeeds itself as America's challenger for the Davis Cup by lowering the French team's tricolor in three straight matches at Longwood Cricket Club, Boston. James O. Anderson (Australian captain) defeated the French schoolboy, RenÉ Lacoste; John Hawkes disposed of Jacques Brugnon in straight sets, and the same players, paired against each other, locked in a desperate five-set struggle which went the way of the Australians...