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...told that he would not be needed. Last week, in the National Singles Championship at Forest Hills, L. I., Allison got a chance to show how he felt about a team on which he had not been considered good enough to play. First he beat huge, handsome Lester Stoefen of California, in a match that took most of an afternoon and part of the next. Then he polished off the No. 1 Davis Cup singles player, towheaded Sidney Wood, 6-3, 6-2, 6-3. By that time, the other two members of the Davis Cup team were already...
...dislikes the strain of a long tournament. With these exceptions the names on the West Side Club scoreboards include nearly all the best players in the world. Topping the list are the members of the U. S. Davis Cup team, Sidney Wood, Frank Shields, George Lott and Lester Stoefen. Experts wondered how o rate the chances of Berkeley Bell, once No. 9 but now No. 18 in national ranking, who has won nine tournaments this season; of youthful oldtimers like John Van Ryn, Wilmer Allison, Bryan Grant and Clifford Sutter: of the latest batch of promising youngsters like Donald Budge...
...front cover) Frederick John Perry last week blacked his eye on an awning rod bowing to Helen Jacobs, threw a handful of rolls at Lester Stoefen, appeared with a wave in his hair. At Germantown, Pa., George Lott and Lester Stoefen retained their U. S. doubles championship by defeating John Van Ryn and Wilmer Allison 6-4, 9-7, 3-6, 6-4. At Rye, N. Y., most of the first-class tennists in the U. S. assembled to put the finishing touches on their games. In the citified suburb of Forest Hills. L. I., groundskeepers rolled, clipped and patted...
...Perry or if Shields could beat England's No. 2 dapper little Henry Wilfred ("Bunny") Austin, the U. S. had a fine chance to win the Davis Cup for the first time in eight years. In the other three matches, it was agreed that George Lott and Lester Stoefen could scarcely fail to demolish any doubles team England could put on the court; that Wood would probably beat Austin; and that Perry would certainly beat Shields. The draw scheduled both crucial singles matches for the first day of the series...
...days later, Lott & Stoefen had more trouble than they expected beating Harold George Newcombe Lee and George Patrick Hughes, 7-5, 6-0, 4-6, 9-7. The forlorn chance that the U. S. might repeat its performance of the week before disappeared next day when Perry beat Shields, 6-4, 4-6, 6-2, 15-13. In the last match of the series Austin beat Wood...