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Sport: Eighteen-Year-Olds

Fortnight ago in the finals of the Metropolitan Grass Court Championship in Brooklyn, Ellsworth Vines, 18, unknown, beat Francis T. Hunter, second ranking U. S. player. Entering last week the annual invitation tournament of the Sea Bright, N. J. Lawn Tennis & Cricket Club —a tournament which has become regarded as a more important sign-pointer for the national than any other mid-season event — Ellsworth Vines was no longer unknown. People had learned about him — that his father owns a chain of Pacific Coast meat stores,...

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