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...usual, was briefer but the thrashing was identical. Rules limit each team to four men. Before the matches started, the U. S. selection committee picked Donald Budge and Wilmer Allison for the singles matches, passed over Bryan ("Bitsy") Grant, who had beaten both in practice, chose Budge and Gene Mako as the U. S. doubles team. On the courts of the Germantown Cricket Club, where France won the Cup from the U. S. in 1927, Allison, whose game rarely reaches its peak till late August, proved that this year was no exception by losing to Australia's Adrian Quist...
Turning point came next day, when Budge & Mako were leading Quist & Crawford two sets to one. At 4-5 and 15-30 on Quist's serve, Crawford sent a short lob into centre court. Instead of smashing it, Mako put it into the net. Quist & Crawford then pulled out the set. Budge & Mako got a lead of 4-1 in the fifth set. When Crawford & Quist managed to win this one also, and with it the match, 4-6, 2-6, 6-4, 7-5, 6-4, the result of the American Zone final, barring miracles, was certain...
...through Dorothy Andrus and Carolin Babcock, 6-4, 6-2. The most important match of the week-final of the men's doubles-turned out to be a show-down between the two U. S. Davis Cup pairs of John Van Ryn & Wilmer Allison and Donald Budge & Gene Mako. It lasted over two hours and when it ended Van Ryn & Allison had regained the title they held...
...California Championship for men. A diffident, stringy, surprisingly agile youth, he appeared in major Eastern tournaments the next year, impressed critics with a sounder repertory of strokes and more tennis intuition than any of his contemporaries. Last spring, he and his fellow Californian, Gene Mako, were named for the Davis Cup team more to give them competitive seasoning than because anyone actually expected them to help bring back the Cup. As soon as he reached England, Budge made it clear that he not only deserved a real place on the team but that he was by far the ablest member...
Best acting and direction are reserved for the central story, concerning Tony Mako (Joseph Spurin-Calleia), a deadeyed, neurotic murderer who attends the show handcuffed to a detective because their train leaves late. Tony wants two things: to see the little man who betrayed him dying at his feet; then to drop dead himself. He gets both wishes. One or two of Small Miracle's side excursions are gratuitous and one or two are trite, but the tangled threads never slip out of the capable hands of Director George Abbott. The net effect is as pungent and authentic...