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...divides his time between New York and California, justified comparison with Johnston. Slight, delicate, with big forearms and incongruous stamina, he plays a heady game, often loses a set or two while experimenting with his oppo nent's weaknesses. As was Johnston's, his best shot is his forehand though until this year it was so undependable that he made j a habit of borrowing his friends' rackets, taking lessons, practicing against a wall when the trick deserted him. Two of his uncles are Watson Washburn, 19 21 Davis Cup player, and Julian S. Myrick, onetime (1920-22) president...
...Betty Nuthall started to pick up a little she broke a racquet. Now she looked worried. She said afterward it was her favorite racquet. She took another one. She was getting more depth on the ball now and Miss Morrill, forced on the defense, could not work her nice forehand so effectively. Betty Nuthall took the set and then, as Miss Morrill suddenly faltered, ran out the match. Score...
...match was hotly exciting. For five sets, less one point?a point that was never played?Berkeley Bell, agile, 125-lb. player from Dallas, Tex. had run after the hard forehand drives of Francis Townsend Hunter, longtime Davis cupman, No. 2 ranking player. Hunter lost the first set, but took the next two. Bell was coming up to the net in the fourth?hazardous tactics against anyone so accurate as Hunter?and even in the backcourt his legs pumped so fast that he made gets that seemed impossible. For such short legs, the pace was hard, and while Hunter...
...title. More experienced, Lord Aberdare out-placed him and Frazier, coming in close to get the Englishman's cut-shots, netted repeatedly. After being set-point three times, Lord Aberdare won the first set 6-3, took the next quickly, then began to net shots on his own forehand. But Frazier let him have some on his backhand and Lord Aberdare, cool, dark-haired, unhurried, gained confidence, found grille and dedans for aces, mixed his usual service with an undertwist until he had the last set, 7-5, and the title...
...indoor doubles with Marjorie Morrill. Mrs. George Wightman, a resident of Brookline, holder of 31 national titles, came over in the afternoons to give them lessons. The Palfreys had learned by themselves those parts of the game that players not taught by a professional always get first-serve and forehand drive. Mrs. Wightman taught them footwork, volleying, trained them not to run around the shots that came to their backhands. Now, together and singly, they hold all the national junior and girls' titles. Sarah, best on turf, has never been beaten by a girl of her age or younger. Still...