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...three young hopefuls most mentioned as candidates for next year's Davis Cup team are red-haired Donald Budge, Junior Champion Gene Mako, and Coach Mercer Beasley's prize protege Frank Parker. Yet last week not one of them lasted beyond the quarterfinals...
...rate the chances of Berkeley Bell, once No. 9 but now No. 18 in national ranking, who has won nine tournaments this season; of youthful oldtimers like John Van Ryn, Wilmer Allison, Bryan Grant and Clifford Sutter: of the latest batch of promising youngsters like Donald Budge, Gene Mako and Frank Parker...
Scientists call the shark Isuris, most laymen call it "mackerel shark" (because it eats mackerel and looks a little like one) and New Zealand fishermen, who hate & fear it, call it "the great mako." It lives mostly in the South Seas and off New Zealand but, straying over the world, it has been seen as far north as Cape Cod. Largest ever caught was hooked off New Zealand in 1931 by one H. Wickham-White. It was 11 ft. 6 in. long, 6 ft. 2 in. in girth and weighed 798 Ib. No man-eating has been proved against...
...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-6-2, 7-5, 7-5-put Lott & Stoefen in the semi-finals against young Jack Tidball & Gene Mako of Los Angeles...
...into the hole (148 yd.) on the fly. The hole used was on his home Salisbury Country Club links. ¶ Red-headed Donald Budge, 17, of Oakland, Calif.: the U. S. junior tennis championship 6-4, 6-2, 1-6. 0-6, 8-6 in the final, against Gene Mako of Los Angeles; at Culver, Ind. On an adjoining court, his Oakland neighbor, Robert Harmon, won the boys' championship, 4-6, 6-0, 6-2, against Robert Riggs, of Los Angeles. ¶George Reis of Lake George, N. Y., in his brown-hulled speedboat, El Lagarto: the National Sweepstakes...