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...tactical authority and mature, practiced perfection in backcourt stroking, he would surely do it. Immaculate and chipper, Perry dashed off the first set, 6-3. The crowd applauded and waited for Crawford to warm up. Playing on his baseline instead of behind it, gaining invaluable split seconds by taking Perry's shots just before the top of the bounce, stinging his steady backhanders into Perry's farthest corner, Crawford worked along sedately in the second set while his opponent's tension mounted with the score. At 11-all, Perry made a double fault that unraveled his nerves...
Technically, the strength of Champion Crawford's game lies in its lack of any noticeable weakness, in a knack of anticipation, and in an extraordinarily keen discrimination about when to play a ball and when to let it go out. His serve, almost as severe as Vines's, is equally dependable. With slower ground strokes than most first-rate U. S. tennists, and less style than most Englishmen, who play as though the net were a mirror, Crawford has an energetic steadiness that depresses his opponents, a tireless ability to play his positive, muscular shots, not for aces...
From Brookes, who was one of the world's best players from 1907 to 1920, Champion Crawford received more than his notion of what kind of bat to use. Now a Melbourne manufacturer, in his middle 50's, Norman Brookes still plays formidable tennis. Last winter he teamed with Vines in a doubles match against Gledhill and Gerald Patterson, whose victory at Wimbledon in 1922 was the last by a British subject until Crawford's this year. Brookes's stubborn ambition to bring the Davis Cup back to Australia had something to do with the tour...
...champion before he made a Davis Cup team. For England, at least, Perry is the No. 1 player of 1933. He beat McGrath. then Allison and Vines, then Cochet and Merlin in this year's Davis Cup matches. If he gets what he calls a "good win:" over Crawford, whom he has not played this year, it will be in the final at Forest Hills, because they will doubtless be in opposite halves of the draw. For the last five years, the winner of the Pacific South West tournament has won the U. S. title the next year. Perry...
...left side, is a month younger than Parker. Son of a Mudgee, N. S. W., farmer, he beat Vines in Australia last winter, spry little Jiro Satoh in last summer's Davis Cup matches. Unlikely to get far at Forest Hills, the experience will help him become, with Crawford, the mainstay of Australia's Davis Cup team...