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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gentleman named Jesse Jones. An election in 1932 made Jesse Jones and another Texan. John Nance Garner, men of importance in Washington. Therefore the U. S. dipped into its Treasury for $3,000,000, a larger amount than it had ever contributed for a similar occasion, to match Texas' equal appropriation...
...Davis Cup history for the past nine years has taken the form of prodigious ballyhoo preceding a thrashing. This year the ballyhoo, as loud as 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...
...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. No miracles occurred. Next day, Crawford beat Allison 4-6, 6-3, 4-6, 6-2, 6-2, While they played their match, Quist was lying down...
...default. Then he had been eliminated because, when his name was finally called for the third round, he turned out to be at home in Rye, N. Y. The other, curly-haired Robert Sweeny, who lives in London and plays from a British club, had, after a terrific match, put out Scotland's famed Jack McLean at the 20th hole but, in another terrific match the next day, he had lost to James Ferrier. It was Ferrier now who seemed entirely capable of taking the title back to New South Wales. Amateur champion of Australia at 22, a huge...
...final's first twelve holes, Ferrier, putting brilliantly, was three up. Stubborn Thomson, son of a professional golfer, won the 14th, 15th and 16th and the afternoon round started with the match all even. Thomson finished the first nine two up. Ferrier cut it down to one up at the "Road Hole," the 17th, with a 4 to Thomson's 5. On the 18th green, Thomson's second shot stopped rolling six inches from the pin. Ferrier's stopped 30 feet away. Ferrier nodded, conceded the kind of match that makes old Scotsmen smoke their...