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Briggs, who has been a favorite to annex the title held last year by Takeichi Harada, dropped his first set of the match to W. L. Coleman 3L, whose smashing game offered Briggs the first serious opposition with which he has met. Coleman faltered before the machine-like precision of the winner who captured the third and fourth sets, and the match...
...Takeichi Harada, Japanese Davis Cup player and last year a special student at the University, who has been placed tenth on the rank list of the world's tennis players cabled from London by Wallis Myers, authoritative English sports writer, attributes his success largely to Coach Harry Cowles' instruction last year...
...Brookline. Gerald Patterson for Australia - a tall sleek giant, epitomizing in his person all the large-limbed grace and slow-footedness of the western peoples-op-posed Takeichi Harada for Japan, a man like a brown jumping-jack. Patterson drove his mighty shots into the net, swacked them over the backline, was tidily defeated but his teammates, Anderson and Hawkes, won all their matches, eliminated Japan from the Davis Cup tryouts. Australia was scheduled to oppose France to see which will face...
...greater en- durance than big men. It is not always the case. Last week Gerald L. Patterson of Australia, a tall and sturdy fellow whose white flannels are better tailored, whose blazer is gaudier, than those of any other gentleman in tennis, indulged in an endurance test with wiry Takeichi Harada of Japan, discomfited him, 5-7, 7-5, 3-6, 6-3, 6-1, to win the Longwood Bowl...
...play. Gerald L. Patterson won first for Australia by tantalizing Zenzo Shimizu with neat chops, then opening up his driving play and net smashes. Pat O'Hara Wood went five lively sets but finally pinned down slippery, stinging Sunao Okamoto. Wood and Patterson wore out Okamoto and Takeichi Harada in three tense sets of doubles. In two superfluous singles matches, Wood put by Shimizu, Patterson toyed with Okamoto...
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