Word: mcgrath
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brookline, rain delayed the start of the men's doubles, made the courts slippery when 30 of the 32 teams played their first matches. A default gave the Australian team whom the crowds wanted most to see-Jack Crawford & Vivian McGrath-the dubious advantage of rest instead of an easy match before they met Berkeley Bell & Gregory Mangin in the second round. The weather, still soggy, gave them a much less dubious advantage when the match began because Bell has trouble standing up even when the footing is dry and firm. After winning without difficulty...
...class foreign players than any U. S. championship in years was not the only thing that gave last week's tournament at Brookline a special importance. Coming after the closest Davis Cup matches on record, it was a chance to try out new combinations, like Lott & Stoefen, Crawford & McGrath. Furthermore, it gave U. S. tennis followers their first brief glimpse of the player who has become indisputably, for this year at least, the world's No. 1. Last winter Jack Crawford won the Australian singles championship at Melbourne, beating Keith Gledhill in the final. In the final...
...impressive on the court that nothing he might do would be surprising-would be capable, on their best days, of beating any of the first four. Forest Hills usually turns up at least one dark horse. This year the tournament will have two prodigies. Parker and McGrath...
...sleek appearance, a bland cosmopolitan manner which belies the fact that he taught himself tennis on London's public courts, became world's ping pong champion before he made a Davis Cup team. For England, at least, Perry is the No. 1 player of 1933. He beat McGrath. then Allison and Vines, then Cochet and Merlin in this year's Davis Cup matches. If he gets what he calls a "good win:" over Crawford, whom he has not played this year, it will be in the final at Forest Hills, because they will doubtless be in opposite...
Baby-faced Vivian McGrath who pronounces his name "McGraw," lopes around the court like a kangaroo, holds his racquet with both hands when hitting off his left side, is a month younger than Parker. Son of a Mudgee, N. S. W., farmer, he beat Vines in Australia last winter, spry little Jiro Satoh in last summer's Davis Cup matches. Unlikely to get far at Forest Hills, the experience will help him become, with Crawford, the mainstay of Australia's Davis Cup team...