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Ordinarily, at this time of year, top flight U.S. tennists would be warming up for the Seabright tournament, classic curtain raiser of the Eastern grass-court season. This year, for the first time in half a century, there may be no tournament at Seabright. But Longwood, Rye, Newport and Southampton hope to carry on in their traditional roles as tune-ups for the National at Forest Hills, and with rationing (three for each match) there will be enough balls to last the summer...
...tennis team is expected to play some informal matches with nearby tennis clubs such as Milton and Longwood...
...next national champion will be either Betz or Bundy," predicted U. S. tennis experts last fall, when Alice Marble turned professional. Last week, at Boston's Longwood Cricket Club, the finalists in the national indoor tennis championship turned out to be: 21-year-old Pauline Betz and 24-year-old Dorothy May Sutton Bundy...
Most of the top-ranking American players have had work done at the shop at some time or other. Bill Tilden, Vinnic Richards, and Little Bill Johnston used to drop in at Harry Cowles' when they were playing at Longwood. George Lott and Berkeley Bell still send their racquets up here for restringing. And the shop annually receives its order from an old Harvardian, now living in Singapore. All in all, upwards of 75,000 stringing jobs have been turned out at 67a Mt. Auburn Street in the past sixteen years...
...Tennists Jack Kramer & Ted Schroeder, a pair of 19-year-old Californians: the National Doubles championship; beating Gardnar Mulloy & Henry Prusoff in the final, 6-4, 8-6, 9-7; at the Longwood Cricket Club, Brookline, Mass. For Partners Kramer & Schroeder, youngest players ever to win the U. S. Doubles, it was their twelfth victory in 15 tournaments...