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Every Saturday half a million Britons go to the dogs. Even in winter, 200,000 Londoners throng 19 nearby tracks. Tubes and trolley busses to Wembley, Wimbledon and White City are packed with clerks, Indian students, Irish laborers, barristers and housewives, all conning racing reports in early editions of the Star and fresh tips in the daily Greyhound Express...
...request, Stuffy retired last July to the quiet of his widower's home in Wimbledon to follow the war through the newspapers. At 61 he is still a trim, erect figure, more than ever engrossed in the spiritualist studies which have long interested him. In London's Sunday Pictorial Sir Hugh was quoted last week: "I am sure that our war dead live on. ... I have read messages from them...
Never a slugger, court strategist Dick Sears pit-patted his way to seven U.S. championships (a record since equaled by Larned and Tilden but never broken). He also won the national doubles six times (five of them with James Dwight). At Wimbledon he played only once, was soundly beaten in an early round. Injuries he suffered in a collision with a doubles partner ended Dick Sears's lawn tennis career at his prime (25). Thereupon he took up its less strenuous ancestor, court tennis, and became the first U.S. champion at that. Despite a scarcity of opponents, Dick Sears...
...entrants, listing his home tennis club as the 36th Armored Regiment, indicated pretty well the real finality of the event. There have been no Davis Cup matches since Sir Norman Brookes took his Australians home to war in 1939. The sacred turf of England's Wimbledon has been torn by bombs and turned into a pasture. The general bleakness this week overtook the West Side Tennis Club's stadium, whose eleven flagpoles used to be none too many to fly the national emblems of its players...
...Schroeder, 21-year-old Southern Californian: the Southampton Invitation Tennis Singles Tournament (this year a round robin); defeating lanky, towheaded Sidney Wood, onetime Wimbledon Champion, 3-6, 6-1, 6-4, 1-6, 6-1; at The Meadow Club, Southampton, L.I. Next day Schroeder & Wood fought through four sets against Victor Seixas and Bill Talbert to capture the doubles...