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Great Britain, faced with the task of building a brand-new team, drew France's better-seasoned team as a first-round foe, seemed sure to die a quick death. Sweden, best bet to win the European zone eliminations, drew a first-round pushover, The Netherlands. The U.S., with the Philippines No. i on its victim list, had still to choose its team from a serviceable but slightly shopworn list of likely Davis Cup candidates.* Cockily aloof from it all were the confident Australians, Davis Cup victors in 1939, likely repeaters...
After romping home first in the Nashville Open, 19 strokes below par, the wasp-waisted Texan headed for Dallas. En route last week, he came down with flu, gobbled some sulfa pills, decided to play anyhow. Despite a 102° fever, he fired a 68 to tie for the first-round lead in the $10.000 Dallas Open. But next day, woozy from sulfa, he slumped to 74. After that he could not catch Sam Snead (lately recovered from a broken arm), Jug Mc-Spaden or Byron Nelson. Hogan finished fourth with a 3-under-par. In the longer...
Judge Sullivan's ruling was a heavy and unexpected blow to the War Labor Board and the voluntary formula on which it operates. It was only a first-round decision. But, unless reversed, it meant that under the War Labor Disputes Act the President may seize mines, plants or facilities only when they are equipped for the "manufacture, mining or production" of war-necessary materials. By Judge Sullivan's decision, the law does not cover businesses engaged solely in "distribution." Said WLB Chairman William H. Davis...
...Westchester Country Club for their 17th annual tournament, it looked as if Mrs. Howe would make it three in a row. But in spite of her 800 golf prizes, Mrs. Howe failed to keep her head down, flubbed three successive shots on the seventh hole, wound up with a first-round 87, two strokes behind Beatrice Stevens Hammer Stevens of Greenwich, Conn...
Fight fans saw a slight improvement on the first: a more aggressive Louis, less befuddled by his ring mate's antics; a more upright Godoy, less bent on self-preservation. For six rounds, iron-jawed, oak-legged Godoy, his left eye dripping blood from a first-round bombardment, stuck close to his adversary, withstood his short-range punches. But, in the seventh, he succumbed. In the eighth, Godoy was knocked down again for a count of eight, and a few seconds later, still charging crazily like a wounded bull, collapsed from exhaustion...