The Phoenix index. (Phoenix, Ariz.) 193?-19??, 1939-08-26
Jimmie Nc Daniels Strictly Davis Cup
Material In Opinion Of Experts Who
Saw Him At Hampton Past Week
(BACK FROM 1889 'NATIONALs'
MZUdns Melanchozy Zones


THE SEPIA TENNIS WORLD has just acclaimed
Jimmie McDanes crack Xavier University freshman from
Los Angeles, California, the smoothest article
in the "Nationals".
The lefthanded coast boy who's feet II inches tall
and weighs 6S pound has what tennis experts are call
ing the perfect game His unlimited court assets include
superlavely nmbe BRAIN tireess pair of sturdy legs
cannonball service, bstering overhead ki from di-
N forehand and bachand placements that strike angles
acute his opponents usually fail to get their racquet
the ball. and, other things the sorretopped youth
performs at top speed with effortless all the time
Nothing to bother him. He's poison important
points, seldom failing to win those he needs most.
The first game of Nc Daniels quarterfinals match
against John Chandler the former Rutgers University
fouretter haing from Fanwood, New Jersey, was
masterpiece 1t remains indelbe in the minds of all four
point description of the Xavier lads game at its best
Chandler served Nc Daniels returned sharply with
crosscourt to ehanded Nc Daniels forehand Anticpat
ing the conventional crosscOrt shot to his bachand Chand
Ter shifted swiftly to his left But TO- and behold the coast
sensation sent bstering rvet "down-the-lne" which
denied the lime for ove15 The feat duplicated two
times for love4O Chandler decided he had solved his OPP
ponent at last The instant Nc Daniels hosed his racquet
to address the ball the fourth point of the game Chand
faxed 20 the left then scurred to his right where he
reasoned the Xavier star would send the ball the
previous three occasions But oddly enough Nc Danies
loose and almost tore down the backstOp with
court placement to the opposite that found Chand
fully three yards away from his station. The
in only SO seconds After four minutes c Daniels
led 81 He the set in only 10 minutes In thirty
minutes the whole match The day before ne
beat Tommy Walker in only twenty minutes
In his two meetings with Weir, Nc Daniels won both
six played In the said six sets they required So games
Nc Daniels won SO, Weir only 16.
singular fact about Nc Daniels Ga, o., "a victory
over Weir in the finals of the Twenty Third National
Championships of the American Tennis Association last
Saturday at Hampton institute is that he raed Reggls
time another in all three sets He behind 81
in the first and third sets and AZ in the second
Beginning with his entry into big-time tournament
tennis last year played in four coast meets jim
mic Nc Daniels has competed in IA tournaments Exactly
twelve times he has the mems singles titles in three
meets On all fourteen occasions he has been victorious
with partner i'm the Doubtless His only two defeats
loss to Lloyd Scott in the Southwest meet his first
after entering the conference and setback at the hands
of Christopher Hunt CIAA champion, in the n C. Open
Tournament at Fayetteville N C. when rain AFFECTED the
courts and played havoc with his type OF game when M
Daniels trimmed him in the New York Open the week be-
fore the Nationals But these people are willing to ad
Hampton last Saturday Yet Nc Daniels won again with
surprising ease and after leading every set Weir never
front late the eighth and ninth games of the
respective sets. This uncay ability to from behind
and to win the important of the match established
early the fact that McDanies would be certain winner
Nc Daniels looks like the perfect player already
and he's only freshman playing his second of top
notch tennis All things being equal the Californian IL. is
produced Many accord him that distinction
But time the feels certain will prove his right
to that topmOst recognition
Whether not California simply is the cradle of ten
mis- champions, it just coincidence that so many
question: But just the same is significant that the state
which gave white tennis the immoral Ellsworth Vines; j.
Donald Bulge johnny Doeg Lester Stoefen Bobby Riggs,
of other opnocthers the to forth
with the sepia tennis worlds hottest number as we'll
Were it possible for him to get try-Out and chance
to make the United States Davis Cup team is pretty
generally agreed among all sepa tennis experts that Jim
mie McDanies would make the trip abroad side by side
with frankie Parker Bobby Riggs and the others. AS
matter fact there several white and coored fans
hand who have both Parker and Nc Daniels play
and declare the Xavier youth is just good as ii not bet
ter than the Davis Cup aspirant.
Reggie Weir, Tally Holmes and Edgar Brown hold
the A. T. A. record jointly for most singles crowns won
with apiece 1t is interesting and challenging to await
developments and if Naviers Jimmie Nc Daniels will
eclipse these marks Youth and skill all his side.
Maoc Civ Tutors conference conf and the outlook 0f