Sport: Tomorrow's Tennis

"If the war would end today and Davis Cup tennis could be resumed next week, athletes with names as foreign as some of the present-day battle sites would be the competitors." Thus mused hardy, red-haired Mary Hardwick, England's No. 1 woman tennist, now touring U.S. Army & Navy posts for the sole purpose of playing a few sets of tennis with homesick soldiers and sailors.

Five of Europe's Davis Cuppers have already been killed in action: England's Ronald Shayes, Belgium's Andre Lacroix, France's Christian Boussus, Martin Legeay and John Lesueur. Other popular foreigners who may never again be seen on U.S. courts...

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