AN OPEN SECRET
WHY QUIST DID NOT PLAY
NEW YORK, July 25,
At the Seabright tournament Crawford beat Umstaedter, 6-2, 6-2, and Quist and Crawford beat Fisbach and Bellis, 6-2, 6-3. Crawford meets Grant, who claims he has never lost a match to an Australian, tomorrow. Parker, Sabin, and Riggs also won their matches today.
Quist, the purpose of whose abstention from the singles is now an open secret, that is to avoid giving the American Davis Cup selectors an opportunity of gauging his play against new men (such as Cooke and McNeili, who won the French championship' from whom some jf the American Davis Cup players will be chosen, has been improving the opportunity of closely studying the style and form of those players.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 23, 27 July 1939, Page 9
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125AN OPEN SECRET Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 23, 27 July 1939, Page 9
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