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Davis Cup. Australia succeeds itself as America's challenger for the Davis Cup by lowering the French team's tricolor in three straight matches at Longwood Cricket Club, Boston. James O. Anderson (Australian captain) defeated the French schoolboy, RenÉ Lacoste; John Hawkes disposed of Jacques Brugnon in straight sets, and the same players, paired against each other, locked in a desperate five-set struggle which went the way of the Australians...
Seriously stage-struck when he found himself facing the famous Internationalist, R. Norris Williams II., Harvey Snodgrass, of Los Angeles, lost the finals for the Longwood (Boston) Bowl, 2-6, 4-6, 2-6. Throughout the early stages of the tournament the playing of Snodgrass, a newcomer, had been sensational, Williams, though several times in the finals for the Bowl, won it for the first time in ten years' play...
...comparatively diminutive Helen Wills twice pushed burly Molla Mallory to the limit, once in the national finals and later at Longwood. This year the shadow Miss Wills casts across the title net is truly fearsome. The critics will have a chance to measure it when she steps forth at Seabright on July...
...tennis team for the intercollegiate tournament has not been definitely decided, it is expected that Briggs will replace Guild as the fourth man. In the test matches which have been held since the encounter with Yale Briggs has shown increasing power and yesterday afternoon on the grass courts at Longwood triumphed over Guild in two sets out of three. The tournament will be held at the Merion Cricket Club in Philadelphia and will begin on June...
Rain discomfited tennis enthusiasts last Saturday by forcing the postponement of what will probably be the best match played this season on the Divinity courts, the University-Columbia battle. Although an effort was made to play off the match last Saturday on the indoor courts at Longwood, the match was finally postponed until this afternoon at 3 o'clock on the Divinity courts...