Word: forester
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Davis Cup. For the past two years the ablest amateur tennist in the world has been that convivial young Englishman, Frederick John Perry, who last week made his 1935 U. S. debut by beating old Manuel Alonso in an exhibition match at South Orange. That Perry will win at Forest Hills next week tennis experts are unanimously agreed. If he does so, he will, for the first time, actually become owner of the Cup which stands on a card table beside the court during the final and which, for the last two years, has merely been handed...
Wilmer Allison is ranked No. 1 in U. S. tennis today largely because he was the finalist who carried Perry to five sets at Forest Hills last September. A sunburned, drawling Texan who has been in the first ten since 1928, Allison's main assets are a well-rounded assortment of dependable, aggressive strokes, a good tennis head and a desire to make some reparation for his calamitous failure in last month's Davis Cup challenge round (TIME, Aug. 5). Equally impressive are his drawbacks. He has never beaten Perry. At 30, he finds two five-set singles...
...least one high-class tennist who looks as if nature had designed him for ping-pong. Currently, Bryan ("Bitsy") Grant, a 5 ft. -3 in. Atlantan, holds this distinction. Equipped with almost nothing except a superhuman ability to get the ball back, his qualifications as a dark horse at Forest Hills are: 1) a grievance against the Davis Cup Committee for not putting him on the team for European play, 2) the fact that he has at one time or another beaten almost every able player in the tournament except Perry...
...Wood is generally conceded to be a tennis genius. This merely means that he can play well enough to be ranked as one of the world's greatest players but rarely does so for two days in succession. If Wood should play Perry on his best day at Forest Hills next week, he has a better chance than anyone else to keep the U. S. Singles trophy in the U. S. for another year. Unfortunately, since he played inadequately at Rye three weeks ago and has done nothing since, he seems more likely to be put out at Forest...
...after defeating Bunny Austin. He beat Baron von Cramm in the Davis Cup interzone final and took a set from Perry when the U. S. played England in the challenge round. His only serious rival for No. 1 in U. S. ranking this year-unless something unpredictable occurs at Forest Hills-is Shields. When they met in the final of the Newport Casino invitation tournament last fortnight, Budge won in five sets...