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...victory, 5-0, over third-rate Mexico at New Orleans. Gangling, nerveless Ellsworth Vines, U. S. national champion and leading candidate for phenomenon, was still short of his top form. He seemed absentminded, possibly because of his planned marriage in June to Verle Low of California. Texan Wilmer Allison, a plodder, showed a few moments of brilliant tennis. The supposedly invincible doubles team of Allison & John Van Ryn needed four sets to win. This team will play Australia next; then, if victorious, the winner of the European zone finals; then, possibly, France (July 29-31) at the Stade Roland Garros...
...third oldest.* It now has the nation's second youngest president, † President Gordon is the son of the late Douglas Huntly Gordon, onetime owner of the Baltimore News and president of Baltimore Trust Co. His mother is now Mrs. James Wilmer Biddle of Baltimore and Philadelphia. Graduated from Harvard in 1926, Harvard Law School in 1928, Douglas Gordon practiced law in Baltimore, was elected in 1930 to the House of Delegates of the Maryland General Assembly, in which he is to sit until...
...crowd that watched the opening matches of 1932 Davis Cup play at Washington last week was not really very much concerned about who would win. Everyone knew that the U. S. players-Ellsworth Vines, John Van Ryn, Wilmer Allison, Frank Shields-were too strong for soft-stroking Marcel Rainville and old Dr. Jack Wright, Canada's two best singles players. The real question was: had Vines reached anything like the form that won him the U. S. championship last year...
...single match, Captain D. M. Frame '32 will be pitted against Bryan Grant, seventeenth ranking national player. Grant is one of the best college players in the country and defeated W. L. Breese '31, a year ago. Wilmer Hines, No. 2 on the North Carolina team, is slated to meet J. M. Barnaby '32, who has been advanced to the corresponding position on the Harvard team. The rest of the line up for the visitors is not definite as yet but will probably be as indicated...
...Ellsworth Vines Jr., U. S. tennis champion: the Mason & Dixon championship, beating in the final Wilmer Allison, of Austin, Tex., who had twice beat him earlier this year 6-4, 6-1, 6-4; at White Sulphur Springs...