Word: davises
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Encouraged to team together by Bernon S. Prentice, non-playing captain of this year's U. S. Davis Cup team, Lott & Stoefen proved one thing by their victory last week: that Chicago's hairy, hard-bitten George Martin Lott Jr. is the best doubles player in the U...
Frederick John Perry has a sleek appearance, a bland cosmopolitan manner which belies the fact that he taught himself tennis on London's public courts, became world's ping pong champion before he made a Davis Cup team. For England, at least, Perry is the No. 1 player...
Frank Andrew Parker, 17, has been the prodigy of U. S. tennis almost as long as Vincent Richards was. He still emphasizes his youth with peculiar baggy knickerbockers which hang down to his shins. Almost unbeatable on clay, he should be a member of next year's Davis Cup...
Convivial, black-haired Francis Xavier Shields, handsomest of U. S. tennis players, looked in 1931 like a better prospect than Vines. This year he started so erratically that he was automatically left off the Davis Cup team, revenged himself by winning five U. S. tournaments in a row, roundly beating...
Baby-faced Vivian McGrath who pronounces his name "McGraw," lopes around the court like a kangaroo, holds his racquet with both hands when hitting off his left side, is a month younger than Parker. Son of a Mudgee, N. S. W., farmer, he beat Vines in Australia last winter, spry...