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William Tatem Tilden II can beat Fritz Mercur, onetime Longwood Bowl champion. So, too, can Helen Wills, as she did in an exhibition match last week. Yet Mercur rose to no great heights last week in the Eastern Turf championship at the Westchester-Biltmore Country Club to trounce Tilden in straight sets, 6-4, 6-3. Less alarming, but important, significant, was the straight-set victory (6-4, 7-5) of Berkeley Bell, of the University of Texas, over Francis T. Hunter, perennial doubles partner and intimate of Tilden...
Playing on the grass courts at Longwood Cricket Club Saturday afternoon, two members of the University tennis team were instrumental in gaining victory for Boston in the Church Cup competition with New York and Philadelphia. Captain B. H. Whitbeck '29, Crimson No. 1 man, and M. T. Hill '30, No: 2, both scored triumphs over Quaker singles stars in three set matches to add the necessary points for a Boston win. The results gave the local squad the decision five matches to four...
...final match was won by Arthur Noble, of Newton High School, who defeated Clark Andrews of Lawrenceville Academy, Lawrenceville, N. J., 7-5, 7-5, 6-3, on the Longwood covered courts, where the players were driven by the thundershowers yesterday afternoon...
...drizzling rain forced the University tennis players to resort to the indoor courts at Longwood on Saturday afternoon, where after an uphill battle they defeated Yale 7 to 2 in the final match of a very successful season...
...play matches to determine their ranking in the squad as soon as they are chosen. Tomorrow the present squads will begin a series of matches to determine individual positions, although the six men who constitute the first team were picked some time ago, and have been practicing on the Longwood courts during the winter...