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...Henkel made the score 2 matches all by beating Grant 7-5, 2-6, 6-3, 6-4; and Germany's last chance was that von Cramm, a courtly green-eyed Berliner, who does little but play tennis, dance and drink champagne, would be able to reverse his straight-set defeat by Budge in the All-England final (TIME, July 12). Von Cramm this time got the first two sets (8-6. 7-5), but Budge got the match that put the U. S. in the challenge round against Great Britain...
...obscure English player named Nigel Sharpe; Mangin lost to Rogers and Rogers lost to Satoh; George Lott was beaten by Harold Lee. Shields, who had never played at Wimbledon be- fore, and Wood were the gallery's favorites. Wood beat the champion of Spain, Eduard Maier, in a straight-set match watched by onetime King Alfonso. Shields, whose resemblance to Wimbledon's favorite William Tatem Tilden II and the fact that he was the first seeded U. S. player, made him the centre of centre-court attention, won his first three matches losing only one set...
...Helen Wills, as she did in an exhibition match last week. Yet Mercur rose to no great heights last week in the Eastern Turf championship at the Westchester-Biltmore Country Club to trounce Tilden in straight sets, 6-4, 6-3. Less alarming, but important, significant, was the straight-set victory (6-4, 7-5) of Berkeley Bell, of the University of Texas, over Francis T. Hunter, perennial doubles partner and intimate of Tilden...
National Singles. Only 57 minutes were required by national singles champion William T. Tilden, II, to defend his title from world's singles champion William M. Johnston in a disappointing straight-set final at the Germantown Cricket Club, Philadelphia. Tilden was at top form; Johnston, beaten before he stepped onto the turf. It was Tilden's fourth successive title. Score...