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...days later U. S. alarm was some-what allayed when Budge & Gene Mako beat F. H. D. Wilde & C. R. D. Tuckey, 6-3, 7-5, 7-9. 12-10. That left Budge and Parker the job of winning between them at least one of the last two singles matches to clinch...
...would split the first two matches-U. S. No. i Donald Budge trouncing Henner Ernst Otto Henkel, and German No. i Baron Gottfried von Cramm trouncing Bryan ("Bitsy") Grant. The opening matches turned out just so and the one doubles match became pivotal. Paired as always with husky Gene Mako, Budge did not hit his stride until von Cramm & Henkel had won one set and run the second to 5-3. Then Budge & Mako smashed through Henkel's service, went on to take the set 7-5, the next 8-6 and the last 6-4, after Germany...
Serving murderously, stroking like precise lightning, the attenuated, red-haired Budge polished off Crawford 6-1, 6-3, 6-2. Indefatigable little Grant had small trouble with 18-year-old Bromwich, 6-2, 7-5, 6-1. When Budge & Gene Mako demolished Crawford & McGrath 7-5, 6-1, 8-6 in the doubles next day, the issue was settled. The singles matches that followed-Budge v. Bromwich and Grant v. Crawford-were purely matters of form. In one, Bromwich managed to get Australia its first set while Budge was beating...
...Francisco, After a winter of bickering as to who would be the ablest partner for red-haired Donald Budge, U. S. No. 1, the U. S. Davis Cup Committee finally picked Frank Parker for No. 2 singles man, Gene Mako for Budge's doubles partner. Against Jiro Yamagishi, Japanese singles champion, Parker surprised everyone by winning the only match about which there was much doubt, 6-3, 2-6, 8-6, 6-1. His teammates handily won the other four, qualified to meet Australia in the American Zone final at Forest Hills...
...Donald Budge & Gene Mako, Carolin Babcock & Marjorie Gladman Van Ryn, Alice Marble & Gene Mako: U. S. tennis championships at Men's, Women's and Mixed Doubles respectively; at the Longwood Cricket Club, near Boston...