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...brief glimpse of the player who has become indisputably, for this year at least, the world's No. 1. Last winter Jack Crawford won the Australian singles championship at Melbourne, beating Keith Gledhill in the final. In the final of the French hard court championship, he finished Henri Cochet in short straight sets. In July he won at Wimbledon in a final that some experts considered the greatest tennis match ever played, against Ellsworth Vines. John Herbert ("Jack") Crawford needed only a victory at Forest Hills this week for a clean sweep of the world's four biggest...
...Cochet, wearing shorts like Austin's for the first time in his career, ran up a 4-1 lead. Perry broke his service and won his own twice to tie the score. With the score 4-5 and advantage-in, Perry served what looked like an ace. The linesman called it a fault and Cochet gallantly caught the next serve in his left hand. The set then turned into a long exchange of service games which ended 10-8 for Cochet. Perry took the next two which followed the same pattern, 6-4 and 8-6. Cochet...
...fifth set, the excitable crowd, well aware that the Cup which France has held for six years depended on the next few games, began to chant "Cochet! Cochet! Cochet!" But little Cochet, dapper and forlorn, needed something more than encouragement. Perry, apparently not tired at all, saw that his opponent was too weary to cover the blazing court. He smashed through five games in a row, making Cochet run as far as possible in every rally. Cochet picked up one game on his own serve but Perry quickly took the next one and" the set, 6-1. In the dressing...
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...
Perry had blown up in the first set and that Merlin, playing with the calm arrogance of a Cochet, had won it at 6-4-that made the last match so exciting...