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Kramer's "Big Game." Just as the model T had to come before the streamlined 1947 Ford, previous California champions had to blaze the trail. First there was the California Comet, Maurice McLoughlin, whose weapons were lethal but lopsided: a smashing serve and volley. Next in the California line came Little Bill Johnston with the big forehand, then Ellsworth Vines with a bullet serve and an even more devastating forehand. After that was Budge, who had an all-court game and an incomparable backhand. Jake Kramer has something from all these predecessors; perhaps the nearest likeness is to call...
Died. William M4 ("Little Bill") Johnston, 51, ping-pong-sized (120-lb.) tennis player whose 1915 victory over Maurice McLoughlin and gallant losing battles with Big Bill Tilden in the '20s made court history; of a heart attack; in San Francisco. A deadly hitter, with a Western-grip forehand famed around the world, Little Bill was twice national singles champion, teamed with Tilden to win the Davis Cup seven times running...
Died. Thomas Clark Bundy, 64, three times national doubles tennis champion (with Maurice McLoughlin), former husband of onetime (1904) women's national singles champion May Sutton, father of first-ten player Dorothy May Bundy, uncle of onetime (1930) national singles champion John Hope Doeg; after long illness; in Santa Monica, Calif...
Cokes and Ice Cream. The sexton, Tom Ryan, had a good name in the neighborhood. He had a cherubic, middle-aged face-"like a bottle baby," said Mrs. Mary McLoughlin down the street. And if the Mission showed little interest in the souls of bums, Father Norman was a friend to the neighbors. He gave the kids cokes and ice cream, and took them for rides in his big black automobile. At Christmas he invited 60 of them to dinner, gave them firemen's helmets and cowboy hats. If anybody needed coal, money or clothes for their children, jovial...
Mile run: Bob McLoughlin, Don McCaul, Bob Treescher...