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...third time when they ran through Dorothy Andrus and Carolin Babcock, 6-4, 6-2. The most important match of the week-final of the men's doubles-turned out to be a show-down between the two U. S. Davis Cup pairs of John Van Ryn & Wilmer Allison and Donald Budge & Gene Mako. It lasted over two hours and when it ended Van Ryn & Allison had regained the title they held...
...summer tournaments and the National Championships, promptly and sympathetically organized an East-West series to keep them busy. How frivolous this series has become was demonstrated by the fact that one of the members of the West's team last week at The Orange Lawn Tennis Club was Wilmer Hines of Columbia, S. C., another, Charles Harris of West Palm Beach, Fla. Harris lost his match to Bryan ("Bitsy") Grant, who had beaten Leonard Patterson of Los Angeles the day before, but those were the only points East won. Hines thrashed saturnine Manuel Alonso, onetime Spanish Davis Cup star...
...court tennist and non-playing captain of the U. S. Davis Cup team, was up against a tough question. The U. S. team had just managed to beat Germany in the interzone final (TIME, July 29). In the doubles, after match point had been called against them five times, Wilmer Allison and John Van Ryn had nosed out Baron Gottfried von Cramm and Kay Lund in five long sets. Next day, Allison had, as expected, won his singles match against Heiner Henkel and Donald Budge had amazingly defeated von Cramm. This gave the U. S. the right to play England...
...importance of Budge to the U. S. Davis Cup campaign lies in the fact that Germany and England each have one singles player who can be counted on to win two matches. Last week, experts expected that Germany's Baron Gottfried von Cramm would defeat both Budge and Wilmer Allison, that Allison and John Van Ryn would win the doubles and that Allison would beat Germany's No. 2 player, Heiner Henkel. The outcome might therefore well depend on the first match, between Budge and Henkel. A small gallery watched Budge nervously fumble through the first three sets...
...than 25,000 every afternoon- watched the matches. They saw Borotra indicate that he might not have been of much use to France's Davis Cup team in any case by losing, after five hard sets, to Czechoslovakian Roderick Menzel. In the most startling upset of the week, Wilmer Allison lost to Australia's unorthodox Vivian McGrath in the first round. After seven days of play, the only U. S. player left in the men's singles was red-haired Donald Budge of Oakland, Calif. Experts agreed that England's Fred Perry, last year...