The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-25
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BY STUART CAMERON United Press Sports Editor)

New York, April 26.-(UP)- They're playing one of those re- sort tennis tournaments down at Hot Springs, Va, this week, and unlike most such polite sports shows this one may mean some. thing. It's entirely possible that what happens between now anc Saturday will have an important bearing on the United States at' tempt to win back the Davis cup.
 The key men of the Hot Springs business are Lester Stoefen or Los Angeles and Bryan Grant of At lanta, and for the time being the latter is the mort important.
 Unless Stoefen breaks that figu- rative leg he will be the No man of the 1894 Davis cup squad. He's set. But what of Bitsy Grant? We'll, there's the matter of his small stature, and it's the only thing that has kept him from seri- ous consideration as a cup player. Grant is no more than five-feet- four in his tennis shoes, and this, of course, is a real handicap to his service and even more so to his attack at the net.
 But what Bitsy lacks in stature he more than makes up for irl strategy and indefatigable play from the baseline. No amateur to-day can show grant anything about the knack of catching up with seemingly impossible gets The very fact that he is small Is an asset as he can show Grant any thing about the knack of catching up with seemingly impossible gets The very fact that he is small Is an asset as he bounds about the court like jackrabbit.
 It was only last Saturday that Grant gave tennis it's first real up- set of the outdoor season. Coming onto the court at White Sulphur Springs Grant and Stoefen were set-and-set in a delayed semi-final match. Stoefen managed to save the third set at S-6, but Grant then ran out the match, winning the final set at 6-1.
 The important point to remem- Der is that Grant won because he played better tennis and not be- cause Stoefen was having an off day. As long as he stayed at the baseline he uutslugged and out placed the towering Californian.
 Down at Atlanta Grant is one great sports figure, now that Bobby Jones has quit playing. His friends like to recall that he won two- thirds of his important matches in 1898, and they remind you that his victims included Frank Shields Frank Parker, Sidney Wood, John Van Ryn and Ellsworth Vines. The win over Vines, perhaps, was the least important for it came to the fag-end of Elly's extended slump And now he has added Stoefen tc the list, and a real showing at Hot Springs would be certain to bring him definite consideration as cur material.
 A Stoefen- Grant combination would be reminiscent of the one we had beginning back in 1920 when the towering Bill Tilden teamed UT with Little Bill' Johnson. This combination was the keystone oi the American dynasty which last ed until France won the cup, foi the first time, in 1927. But the in' terlude of success contained many a victory for little Bill who was only 5 feet, 5h inches, or N inches "taller'' than Bitsy Grant. Copyright, 1894, by United Press)
 Editors Note: While Henry Nc. Lemore is enroute to England witf the Walker cup team this column Is being written by other members of the United Press sports stair.