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Taught & stimulated by Professor de Schweinitz at the University of Pennsylvania, Professor William Holland Wilmer at Johns Hopkins, Professor John Martin Wheeler of Columbia, and their compeers. U. S. eye surgeons have developed a marvelously precise technique. Their scalpels are slim. Their scissors resemble manicuring scissors. Needles are feather light, thread gossamer thin...
After the Vines-Borotra match, anything, except a defeat for sad little Henri Cochet, would have been an anticlimax. Rednecked Wilmer Allison of Texas won the first set at f-$. but all he could do after that was to make Cochet run more and rally longer than he likes to before Cochet won. 5-7, 7-5, 7-5, 6-2. In the doubles next day, Allison and his partner John Van Ryn won the first match for the U. S. against Cochet and Jacques ("Toto") Brugnon. but not until Brugnon and Cochet, playing Van Ryn's weak backhand...
Even with von Cramm's 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...
...Wimbledon week, which lasts a fortnight all the British championships are played at the same time. In the women's singles Helen Wills reached the semi-finals comfortably, bracketted against Mme Rene Mathieu of France who had put out Betty Nuthall. Wilmer Allison and John Van Ryn. U. S. Davis Cup doubles team, beat Dr. S. C. Gregory and Ian Collins to reach the quarter finals...
...Davis Cup team (Wilmer Allison, Francis Xavier Shields, John Van Ryn): American interzone finals against Brazil, 5 matches to 0; at Forest Hills...