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...Brookline, rain delayed the start of the men's doubles, made the courts slippery when 30 of the 32 teams played their first matches. A default gave the Australian team whom the crowds wanted most to see-Jack Crawford & Vivian McGrath-the dubious advantage of rest instead of an easy match before they met Berkeley Bell & Gregory Mangin in the second round. The weather, still soggy, gave them a much less dubious advantage when the match began because Bell has trouble standing up even when the footing is dry and firm. After winning without difficulty...
...first class foreign players than any U. S. championship in years was not the only thing that gave last week's tournament at Brookline a special importance. Coming after the closest Davis Cup matches on record, it was a chance to try out new combinations, like Lott & Stoefen, Crawford & McGrath. Furthermore, it gave U. S. tennis followers their first 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...
Equipped with thick muscles, the suggestion of a paunch and a brisk, business-like walk, ruddy-faced Jack Crawford bears no resemblance whatever to the tall, somewhat languid youths of whom the U. S. first ten is largely composed. For a long time his game, too, failed to resemble theirs in efficiency. An excitable temperament and inability to control his shots held him back. Crawford started to play tennis on his father's 1,200-acre farm at Albury, New South Wales, took it up more seriously when his family moved to Sidney. In 1924, aged 16, he played...
Last Saturday, F. H. Crawford, professor of Physics, talked on a century of Progress in Physic over WBZ. Next Saturday evening, August 12, Harlow Shapley will give a condensed version of the talk which he will deliver at the Observatory Thursday evening. Professor Kirtley Mather will give the Geology lecture on August 19, H. E. Bent will discuss Chemistry during the last century on August 19, H. E. Bent will discuss Chemistry during the last century on August 26, and Professor MacDonald will speak on Biology on September...
...peak of the market his paper profits were more than $100,000,000 but Doc Crawford continued to lunch at a Horn & Hardart Automat...