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Spectators at Forest Hills last week were well aware of Frankie Parker, most amazing tennis phenomenon of the year, who has four times this season beaten the No. 2 U. S. player, George Lott Jr. Most spectators knew that he had been tutored by Mercer Beasley, tennis coach at Tulane University and instructor at the Detroit Tennis Club. Beasley's other pupils- Vines, Sutter, Carolyn Babcock-have done so well this year and last that Beasley has become the best known teacher in the history of U. S. tennis. Had he been at Forest Hills last week instead...
...Lawrenceville, where he went to school, Mercer Beasley used to play tennis with Karl Behr but it did not look as if the game would turn out to be his career. Even with Notlek Amusement Corp. in Manhattan which had vacant lots for skating in winter, tennis in the summer, Beasley's job as assistant manager had nothing to do with instruction. He took it upon himself to improve the calibre of Notlek tennis, was rewarded by an offer to become tennis coach at the Indian Hill Club in Winnetka, Ill. Said William Tatem Tilden II, when they...
This week Bob Crawford was to set out from Seattle, Wash, on the most newsworthy trip of his career: a triumphant flying return to Alaska. He had flown across the country, taking with him Pianist Harrison Potter and Soprano Ruby Mercer, both of whom have been associated with him in Chautauqua, and as publicity man his Princeton friend Harvey Phillips. They would crate the plane, sail up from Seattle to Seward, Alaska, then fly to Fairbanks for the first concert on Sept. 17. There would be caribou and moose hunting, mountain-climbing, sight seeing, then concerts in Seward, Juneau, Seattle...
...being outplayed by an unranked opponent, ran the score up to 5-2 and set point. That was as far as she could get. Carolyn Babcock, with a forehand so much like Ellsworth Vines's that it was easy to believe she had learned it from his coach, Mercer Beasley, played the kind of calculating tennis that Beasley teaches his proteges, to run out the match 7-5. In the semifinal, Carolyn Babcock was paired against Joan Ridley. She beat the English girl again in three long sets that took an hour and a half...
Henry Ellsworth Vines Jr. began waving a tennis racquet when he was 3 but he did not really take the game seriously till he was about 8. When he was a freshman at the Huntington Park, Pasadena, High School, Mercer Beasley, famed coach of Tulane University tennis teams, saw him play a match, decided his game was worth developing. Vines went east for the first time in 1930. The way he beat Francis Hunter in the finals of the Metropolitan grass court championship that year was only less surprising than the way he lost to Sidney Wood in the finals...