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...Speaking of tennis," he continued, "every man has a blind spot. You may not believe it, but Johnston's was a low forehand drive which showed up when he became tired." A blind spot, as Tilden explains it, is a mechanical defect probably acquired when one is learning the game and is never corrected, however hard the player attempts to do so. The reporter asked him if he had a weak point in his game...
...Tilden hammered away at his opponent's weak point-his backhand. He pranced back & forth across the court, placed his shots so that Vines was rarely in position to return them full strength. Then he nearly ran the gangling legs off Vines, finally had him missing on his forehand, and making costly double faults. After it was over (8-6. 6-3, 6-2), Vines refrained from claiming the legitimate alibi that he had had less than a week's practice indoors. Said he: "Yeah, he fixed me tonight. But maybe I'll nick...
...peep through the fence at his father playing there. At 13 he learned to play. At 15, Walter Merrill Hall quit school, went to work as a Wall Street runner to help support his mother and grandmother. But every morning, every evening he practiced his tennis, developed a powerful forehand drive, a smashing backhand "down the line." At 24, Walter Merrill Hall was national clay court doubles champion. At 30 he came within two points of beating Bill Tilden in the national singles, might have done so if rain had not blurred his spectacles. At 45, last summer...
...amateur standing. After two weeks of consideration, the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association finally decided that while he might have been guilty of thinking about becoming a professional, Vines had never definitely promised to do so, hence remained amateur. Still possessed of the best first serve and the hardest forehand drive in tennis, Vines last week showed signs of having closed the gap between his 1933 form and the game that made him unbeatable in 1932. Said he: "I think my chances of winning the American singles championship are as good as those of any American...
...Next day they went out to finish and Mrs. Harper, with a day to get over the shock of being outplayed by an unranked opponent, ran the score up to 5-2 and set point. That was as far as she could get. Carolyn Babcock, with a forehand so much like Ellsworth Vines's that it was easy to believe she had learned it from his coach, Mercer Beasley, played the kind of calculating tennis that Beasley teaches his proteges, to run out the match 7-5. In the semifinal, Carolyn Babcock was paired against Joan Ridley. She beat...