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...still soggy, gave them a much less dubious advantage when the match began because Bell has trouble standing up even when the footing is dry and firm. After winning without difficulty, 6-3, 6-3, 7-5, Crawford & McGrath came up against the newly organized team of sly George Lott and towering Lester Stoefen. Stoefen & Lott concentrated their attack on 17-year-old McGrath's two-handed backhand. He missed 14 out of 17 chances in the first set, improved later but not enough to play offensive tennis against the fastest combination in the tournament. Their victory...
...that no one had thought much about was doing much better than anyone expected. Young Donald Quist and Don Turnbull beat Allison and Van Ryn, who have been U. S. doubles champions or runners-up since 1931, 15-13, 0-6, 6-1, 7-5. That bracketted them with Lott & Stoefen in one half of the semifinals. In the other, Frank Shields and Frankie Parker played Vines & Keith Gledhill, defending champions. Shields and Parker took the first two sets, with Vines playing badly. Vines and Gledhill won the next two, when Shields was shaky. Finally, shrewd little Parker pulled...
...with more first class foreign players than any U. S. championship in years was not the only thing that gave last week's tournament at Brookline a special importance. Coming after the closest Davis Cup matches on record, it was a chance to try out new combinations, like Lott & Stoefen, Crawford & McGrath. Furthermore, it gave U. S. tennis followers their first brief glimpse of the player who has become indisputably, for this year at least, the world's No. 1. Last winter Jack Crawford won the Australian singles championship at Melbourne, beating Keith Gledhill in the final...
...Favorites to prevent Crawford from completing his clean sweep at Forest Hills this week will be Vines, Perry and Shields, three players who certainly belong in the world's first four but whose ratings in relation to each other experts have difficulty in deciding. Others-like Allison and Lott; Sidney Wood, who has slipped since winning at Wimbledon in 1931 but might come back; Stoefen, who is so impressive on the court that nothing he might do would be surprising-would be capable, on their best days, of beating any of the first four. Forest Hills usually turns...
What small chance the U. S. team then had left to win the Davis Cup back from France in this week's challenge round, stayed alive for one more day. George Lott and John Van Ryn played magnificently against Perry and George Patrick Hughes. With Lett's service dominating the play, they won their match 8-6, 6-4, 6-1. The first of the two singles matches that followed, between Austin and Allison, was close and exciting but Austin, against an opponent who seemed worn and overtrained, had speed enough...