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Stratford Evening Post, Volume LVIII, Issue 48, 3 August 1926, Page 6

LATEST CABLE NEWS

Press Association— Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received 12.50 p.m.) NEW YORK. August % In the tennis Lionel Ogden pLelandStanford University! eliminated Norris Williams (captain of the Davis Cup team) 6—3, 6—B, 10—8, providing on© of the year’s most sensational upsets. Richards defeated Ne'er (Oregon) 6—3, 6—4. William Johnston defeated Bonimian '(New York) B—6, 6—l. Alonzo defeated Harrison (California,) 7 —5, 6'—3. Helen Wills defeated Mrs Rowland Davis- 6—l, 6—o. WASHINGTON. August 2. France on Monday paid ten, inilJfeim dollars cash to the United States as interest on the war supplies debt. . OTTAWA v - Awsust .2.v, Making the Saskatchewan wheat pool the greatest grain-handling organisation in the world' the elevators of the Saskatchewan Oc-operative .Elevator Company on Monday came under the management of a, pooh with a first payment of a million and _ a half dollars lw the pool. Details of the valuation of the /Company’s holdings was decided bv arbitration but is not announced.

LOiNDON. August 2

Sporting criticn regard Mdlle Lenglen’s decision aig a bombshell which may have a fan-reaching effect upon (tennis. It is conceded that Mdlle .Lenglen has no particular financial reason for throwing up her amateur (Status, as slfe has a_ big income through films,, book-writing and newspaper articles,; Her income from photograph fjoes alone is considerable. The change will prevent her competing at the Iliviera and Wimbledon tournaments;) and may even affect her exhibition play. ‘The “Daily Chronicle.” after discussing tbjp, matter with leading English amateurs now playing at Eastbourne, s,?iys that there is no general move toAyards professionalism, but players ;i/re unable to say what may happen id promoters organize exhibi-' tion toru.ing tournaments. _ Thus the South ,j\ frican and Australian■> tows might ijfjinpt some -matenrs.