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...When the meeting was over, the U. S. L. T. A. had passed, by an overwhelming majority, one of the most momentous motions in its 52 years of existence: to permit an open championship, in which amateurs may compete against professionals, to be played at the Germantown Cricket Club either late in May or early in September. Reason: to provide revenue for the Germantown Cricket Club which used to stage the Davis Cup matches till France...
...round of eight at the Merion (Pa.) Cricket Club last week, four of the seven members of the British team were still in the draw. Next day, the only American left was Ruth Hall of Merion, runner-up for the title last year, winner in 1931. sister of J. Gilbert Hall, onetime 13th ranking U. S. lawn tennis player. Against Susan Noel, 20-year-old British champion who learned squash racquets from her father when she was so young she does not remember it. Miss Hall began with the fatal mistake of trying to outdrive her opponent. After losing...
...sporting public of Australia was excited last week by two important events: the national lawn tennis championship and the cricket tests against England for a nonexistent trophy called "The Ashes." There was most excitement "Down Under" about the cricket. Not only had famed Batsman Don Bradman been bowled for a duck (put out with no runs) in the second match, but the crack British bowler, Harold Larwood, had consistently shown a distressing disregard for the safety of opposing batsmen. In the third match he had struck and injured Australia's W. M. Woodfull and W. A. Oldfield. The Australian...
...Marylebone Cricket Club deplore your cable: We deprecate your opinion that there has been unsportsmanlike play. . . . We hope the situation now is not so serious as your cable seemed to indicate. But if it is such as to jeopardize good relations between English and Australian cricketers and you consider it desirable to cancel the remainder of the program, we would consent . . . with great reluctance. . . ." While waiting for the B. C. C. to decide whether or not to resume the test matches (with England ahead, 2-to-1, in the three-out-of-five series) the British team engaged...
...sporting public, the ceremonious cricket altercation was much less exciting than the tennis news from Melbourne, particularly the news that concerned Australia's newest and queerest tennis phenomenon, 16-year-old Vivian McGrath. The four U. S. players who went to Australia last October for a tour like the one which Tilden & Johnston made in 1920, knew about Jack Crawford and Harry Hopman, mainstays of last year's Australian Davis Cup team. But all they had heard about McGrath was that he is a boy wonder who hits his backhand shots with both hands. As soon as they...