SEVERAL UPSETS
SEABRIGHT TENNIS
AMERICANS PERTURBED
(Received July 27, 2 p.m.)
NEW YORK, July 26.
At the Ssabright lawn tennis tournamsnt, the elimination of the Wimbledon champion, R. L. Riggs, today Dy a comparatively unknown player, Frank Guernsey, of Florida, 7-5, 6-4, and E. T. Co .ke's elimination by a 17-year-old Californian, Jack Kramer. 6-3, 6-4, cast a gloom over the American Davis Cup selectors. • • ■ j Other seeded players who fell by the wayside included G. Mulloy, who was beaten by D. McNeill, 7-5, 7-5, and S. B. Wood, who lost to J. Hunt, 7-5, 7-5. W. Sabin beat the Czech Davis Cup player, L. Hecht, 3-6, 6-1,6-3; F. A. Parker beat F. X. Shields, 6-2, 6-2; J. H. Doeg beat M. Buxby, 7-5, 6-4; B. M. Grant beat J. H. Crawford (Australia), 6-3, 4-6, 6-4. Crawford's tennis was extremely spotty and, while time after | time he drove the American hard, the latter, with his traditional tirelessness, returned everything he could get his racket.
In the men's doubles, Crawford and Quist (Australia) beat Edwards and Bickel, 6-2, 7-5, entering the quarterfinals.
In the mixed doubles Quist has Miss A. Marble, Wimbledon triple champion, a~ his partner.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 23, 27 July 1939, Page 10
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196SEVERAL UPSETS Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 23, 27 July 1939, Page 10
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