When the U. S. Davis Cup team was selected for European play last June the country's second ranking player, Wilmer Lawson Allison Jr. of Austin, Tex., was not on it. Later in the month Allison was asked to join the team in England. When he got there, he was told that he would not be needed. Last week, in the National Singles Championship at Forest Hills, L. I., Allison got a chance to show how he felt about a team on which he had not been considered good enough to play. First he beat...
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