Sport: Favorite at Forest Hills

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For a few weeks each September, one small corner of Long Island becomes, with less ballyhoo than that occasioned by a college football game, the sporting capital of the entire world. This unique occurrence, moreover, happens so regularly that Long Islanders scarcely bothered to raise their eyebrows at all last week at the prospect of a program which in many ways makes the Olympic Games at Berlin look like a sideshow.

This year, Long Island will lack both the World's Heavyweight Championship prizefight and the international yacht races which...

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