Sport: Tennis Climax

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Unlike tennis in England, where the world's championship at Wimbledon is the one great tournament of the year, tennis in the U. S. progresses through a series of increasingly important invitation tournaments to the grand finale of the Men's Singles Championship at Forest Hills. By last week, U. S. tennis had reached its semi-final stage: the last round of the women's singles, at Forest Hills, and the men's doubles championship, on the grounds of the Longwood Cricket Club at Brookline, Mass.

At Forest Hills, the stanch disinclination of a slim British...

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