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...match put them in the semi-finals against Ellsworth Vines & Keith Gledhill, Vines's best friend who he thinks should have been on the Davis Cup team. The other semifinalists were George Lott Jr. & Frank Shields and the defending champions, John Van Ryn & Wilmer Allison. It often happens, despite careful seeding, that the best match in a national tournament comes in the semi-finals and it happened last week, when Van Ryn & Allison played Lott & Shields. Lott is undoubtedly the ablest doubles player in the U. S. Van Ryn & Allison have been teamed so long that their games mesh...
...Henry Ellsworth Vines Jr.: two final matches in the Newport invitation tournament; 6-4, 6-3, 6-3 in the singles against his Davis Cup teammate Wilmer Allison; 6-8, 13-11, 8-6, 6-2 in the doubles, paired with Keith Gledhill, against Allison and John Van Ryn, U. S. champions. ¶ Fred Tomlin, professional trapshooter of Glassboro. N. J.: the Open Championship in the Grand American trapshooting tournament; with a perfect score of 200 targets at a 16-yd. rise; at Vandalia. Ohio. Frank Troeh of Portland, Ore. won the shoot-off for second place against three other...
After the Vines-Borotra match, anything, except a defeat for sad little Henri Cochet, would have been an anticlimax. Rednecked Wilmer Allison of Texas won the first set at f-$. but all he could do after that was to make Cochet run more and rally longer than he likes to before Cochet won. 5-7, 7-5, 7-5, 6-2. In the doubles next day, Allison and his partner John Van Ryn won the first match for the U. S. against Cochet and Jacques ("Toto") Brugnon. but not until Brugnon and Cochet, playing Van Ryn's weak backhand...
Even with von Cramm's victory over Shields, the first day's play left the U. S. in a commanding position because Germany has never been able to cook up a first-rate doubles team. If Wilmer Allison (Austin, Tex.) and John Van Ryn (East Orange, N. J.) could win their match against Prenn & von Cramm, all the U.S. needed was one more singles match and Vines was almost sure to get it against von Cramm. For the doubles, the Bouhana courts were slower than ever, after a heavy rain, but it made no difference to Allison...
...jolly Jean Borotra to take his place. Borotra still insisted he was not good enough; there was a chance that young Christian Boussus might play one match at least. That left the doubles up to Cochet and Jacques Brugnon, who were fairly likely to lose to Van Ryn and Allison. If Cochet & Brugnon lost, the U. S. needed two singles matches out of four. Whether it would get them depended mostly on tall, ambling, white-capped, 20-year-old Henry Ellsworth Vines Jr. who, since the summer of 1930, has played the world's most startling tennis...