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...Jewish athletes that there would therefore be no discrimination. Are we to take the gilt-aged invitations issued to Gretel Bergman and Helene Mayer as satisfactory evidence of their good faith? Or are we to consider the gross violations of the Olympic Code contained in the cases of Dr. Prenn, the tennis player, Beelig, the boxer and Nathan, the long distance runner, to name but a few who have been denied access to the training facilities of have been driven out of the country...
...with Mestre in straight sets, 6-0. 9-7, 6-2. Challenge rounds of the Davis Cup matches this year will be played July 28-30 at Paris, a week after the final round in which experts expect the U. S. to oppose Germany or England. Without Dr. Daniel Prenn, who was dropped because he is a Jew, the German Davis Cup team last week beat Egypt, 5-0. Other first round match score: Italy
Vines, more assured than ever since winning the Wimbledon championship last month, played dazzling tennis for two sets. Prenn got three games in each. Tennis critics, who expect a player with a two-set lead to loaf a little but not let down entirely, were baffled by the third set. Vines dawdled about the court with a pleasant grin while Prenn won six games in a row. When Vines, still loafing, lost the first three games in the third set, it looked to the crowd as though Prenn, the most tenacious tennist in Europe, was going to do the impossible...
...victory over Shields, the first day's play left the U. S. in a commanding position because Germany has never been able to cook up a first-rate doubles team. If Wilmer Allison (Austin, Tex.) and John Van Ryn (East Orange, N. J.) could win their match against Prenn & von Cramm, all the U.S. needed was one more singles match and Vines was almost sure to get it against von Cramm. For the doubles, the Bouhana courts were slower than ever, after a heavy rain, but it made no difference to Allison & Van Ryn who have played abroad long enough...
...line decision in favor of Vines when he was playing von Cramm the next day annoyed the gallery, caused shouts of "Lo-carno!" It made no difference in the final result?3-6, 6-3, 9-7, 6-3, for Vines. Dr. Daniel Prenn, who looks a little like Walter Hagen and plays tennis the way Hagen plays golf, with imperturbable determination, gave Shields his second beating in the last match of the series?...