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Last summer 55 men, no women since the women's singles are scheduled this year for the first time, battled for four weeks until Jack Lynch, Navy V-12, won the finals. As all proceeds go to the Cambridge Chapter of the Red Cross there were no cash awards, but the first and second men received certificates of merit from the U.S.L.T.A. As an added inducement this year the loser will pay for the tennis balls unless both players agree otherwise...
...singles matches were taken by the Crimson, with number one man Jack Lynch breezing through Santer of the Seabees, 6-1, 6-1, while second-needed Gene Sands had a little more trouble with Hoffer of Camp Endicott, 6-4, 7-5. Bob Rayle of Harvard beat Lauve, 6-3, 6-0; Bob Ross lost to Endicott's Burzan, 4-6 3-6; Bob Feinberg defeated the Seabees' Klein, 6-3, 6-4; and Henry Moulton of Harvard took Furst...
...doubles matches, Lynch and Callaghan defeated Burzan and Hoffer, 6-3, 8-6, and Frothingham and Feinberg tooko Klein and Furst, 6-0, 6-8, 6-3, while Ross and Rayle were losing to Santer and Lauve...
...Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels invited German mobs to lynch downed Allied airmen. "It is too much to ask of us that we call out German soldiers to protect murderers of children from the righteous anger of their parents...
...Department of Agriculture's Daniel F. J. Lynch of New Orleans announced that peanut oil now makes a good substitute for olive oil in salads, mayonnaise and for industrial uses. Peanut proteins already have a big new market in a glue for paper and wood. In Georgia, the peanut crop is already close to cotton in value, may soon pass it, may even compete with soybeans for commercial interest...