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...defeated Australia in one fell swoop in the challenge round for the Davis Cup, great silver symbol of international lawn tennis supremacy. Last week, on the same courts of the Germantown Cricket Club, a 1938 crop of U. S. and Australian Davis Cuppers met again in the challenge (final) round...
...toast of every London pub last week was a skinny, buck-toothed 22-year-old lad from Pudsey named Leonard Hutton. With a cricket bat Pudsey's boy had tickled sporting Britain into a grin that stretched from Land's End to John o' Groat...
What Batsman Hutton had done, no Britisher had ever done before: in the fifth and last Test match with Australia he had scored 364 runs in one innings-and this at a time when English cricket seemed deader than "The Ashes" for which they were playing.-* The new record for the Anglo-Australian series was 30 runs better than the record set in 1930 by Australia's famed Don Bradman. It was even better than the record for all international cricket: 336 (against New Zealand), set in 1933 by Britain's famed Wally Hammond...
...Australia won the biennial series in 1934, again in 1936. This year the first two games were drawn, the third abandoned because of rain, the fourth taken by Australia. The mythical "Ashes," famed prize of Anglo-Australian cricket, were created by a monumental British joke: a facetious epitaph for English cricket, published in the London Sporting Times in 1882, after a visiting Australian team had trounced England at her own game...
Davis Cup Challenge Round (Sat. 2:15 p.m., 4:30 p.m.; Sun. 3 p.m.; Mon. 2:30 p.m., 5 p.m., CBS). Between U. S. Tennists Donald Budge, Gene Mako, Robert Riggs, Australians Adrian Quist, John Bromwich, at the Germantown Cricket Club; described by Sportscaster Ted Husing...