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Show Wood Places U. S. Back In Davis Cap Tennis Title Play WIMBLEDON, England, July 25 --The United States' hope of meeting meet-ing England for Davis cup were revived here Tuesday when Young Sidney B. Wood, Jr., took a ti e- ! int'iidous Ittad of 2 matches to love nver the Australian champion, ! Jack Crawford, before rain halted play in the fourth match of the enp inler.nne finals. The Americans Ameri-cans are battling with backs to the wall as the result of a double loss hi the opening singles play, Krank Z. SJiiolds losing to Crawford, Craw-ford, and youthful Vivian Mc-Cirath Mc-Cirath upsetting Wood. The Americans averted what most are thinking is just the inevitable in-evitable when Lester Stoefen and CJeorge M. Lott, JV., scored an impressive im-pressive triumph over Crawford and Adrian Quist in doubles play Sunday. The score was 6-4, 2-6, 6-4. l-enves Reckoning to Shields But Wood's inspired tennis Tuesday Tues-day against the redoubtable Crawford Craw-ford raised the spirits of United States backers. He will go to the court again Wednesday in an attempt at-tempt to finish off his fine work of the day before and square the matches at 2-all, leaving the final reckoning up to Shields, who plays McGrath in the fifth and last match. Shields is generally favored over McGrath. Wood took his lead by virtue of brilliant and consistent tennis to lead 6-3, 9-7. The third set stood nl 15-love for Wood when rain ballet! the buttle, The American was simply the better all-around man in this match, despite the Anzac's accepted general superiority. superior-ity. Wood broke Crawford's serve time and time again, and his : sharply angled backhand returns j frequently left the Australian flat-footed flat-footed and in wonderment. |