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...knees. A minor poet and novelist in Prague, Menzel began to play tennis seriously eight years ago. Although he liked it much less than soccer, he soon contrived to be his country's No. 1 player. This season he carried Perry to five sets at Wimbledon and beat Crawford in the European Zone Davis Cup final. If Perry, the defending champion, plays through his field at Forest Hills and becomes the only foreigner except Lacoste to win the U. S. title twice, it will be one of the most brilliant chapters in one of the most extraordinary histories the game...
...five "blokes" whom Perry complimented anonymously last week, two will be absent from Forest Hills?Australia's Jack Crawford, who was too weary to play any more after the Davis Cup interzone final, and Great Britain's "Bunny" Austin who dislikes the strain of a long tournament. With these exceptions the names on the West Side Club scoreboards include nearly all the best players in the world. Topping the list are the members of the U. S. Davis Cup team, Sidney Wood, Frank Shields, George Lott and Lester Stoefen. Experts wondered how o rate the chances of Berkeley Bell, once...
...public court in London by hitting a ball against a wall. By the time the six months were over, he had won a minor tournament at Chiswick Park, trounced Italy's No. 1, Baron Morpurgo, at Wimbledon, been selected for 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...
Last year in the final of the U. S. Singles at Forest Hills, Perry met Jack Crawford who held the Australian, French and All-England titles and was expected to add the U. S. title. When Crawford lost that match and when Ellsworth Vines turned professional shortly afterward, Perry became indisputably the best amateur tennist in the world. Since then he has beaten Crawford five times. After defeating him in the 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...
...Millions of loyal subjects listening by radio while King George opened "Queens-way," world's largest underwater tunnel at Liverpool, could scarcely hear the royal words because of a thundering airplane advertising Crawford's Cream Crackers overhead. Last week Their Majesties had the satisfaction of knowing that $25,000 has been paid to expiate this l�se-majeste. To Liverpool papers William Crawford & Sons, Ltd. sent under no compulsion, except the mighty smash of public opinion, the following abject letter...