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Last week a small but select group of internationalists gathered at Adelaide for the fourth and last stop on the annual world tennis cruise. Competitively, the company was fast. Germany's Baron Gottfried von Cramm and Henner Henkel, U. S. doubles champions, were ending a barnstorming tour of Australia that had been preceded by a barnstorming tour of Japan. Donald Budge and Gene Mako, All-England doubles champions, were winding up a two-month Australian series of exhibitions and competitions...
Coming out for the semi-finals of the Australian Singles last week, Donald Budge had thus far justified his compatriots' if not his hosts' faith in him. After two months of this & that, during which he had dropped four matches (two to Baron von Cramm and two to Australia's Jack Bromwich) and irritated Australian tennis fans by his lackadaisical performance, Champion Budge had demonstrated that, although he is no superhuman tennis machine, he is still the best amateur tennist in the world. At Adelaide he had reached the semi-finals without losing...
Helen Wills Moody is still an able tennis player as she demonstrated last fortnight when she paired with Germany's Baron Gottfried von Cramm to win the mixed doubles in the Pacific Southwest championship tournament from Mrs. John Van Ryn and Donald Budge. But "a stupid mechanical difficulty with a joint called the sacroiliac" persists and, as she recognizes by writing her autobiography, her tennis career is over. Today her career is on other courts: she paints (mostly still life), designs sport clothes and Lastex underwear, has lately taken a screen test, entertains in her duplex studio apartment...
...favorite won the men's championship as advertised, although there were moments at Forest Hills last week when it seemed that the last big match of the tennis season, between California's J. Donald Budge and Germany's Baron Gottfried von Cramm, might never take place. While Budge was pacing easily through the field without once losing a set or even being carried to deuce games, von Cramm needed four sets to beat Hal Surface and Donald McNeill, both unseasoned players, and Bitsy Grant, whom he disposed of in straight sets at Wimbledon this year, took...
...Forest Hills matches got under way, von Cramm put out young Alfred Jarvis and Donald McNeill, but had to work his hardest to beat Hal Surface of Kansas City, who twice was within a point of making it a five-set battle. With much greater dispatch, Budge put out William Winslow, Joseph Abrams...