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...Sidney B. Wood Jr., 18-year-old tennis upstart of New York, winner last fortnight of the Sea Bright Bowl: the Meadow Club tournament at Southampton, L. I.. beating Davis Cupman Wilmer Allison of Texas 3-6, 6-3, 2-6. 6-2. 6-4. in the final. In the semi-final he beat Frank X. Shields. 20, of Manhattan, who eliminated William T. Tilden...
Henri Cochet plays tennis as though the game were an argument couched in a difficult idiom which he alone had mastered. His placements have the brilliance, the finality of condescending epigrams. With such epigrams he might perhaps have punctured the crude bombast of Wilmer Allison's speedy serve last week, had he not flown over to Paris for Rene Lacoste's wedding to the French golf champion, Mile Simone Thion de la Chaume. When he returned to the centre court at Wimbledon, Cochet argued like a tired attorney. He won the first two games, but after that...
...Allison's serve had been his best weapon against Cochet, as Tilden's had against Borotra. The final too was a test of serves and Tilden has always had the best serve in the world. He took the first set with a burst of aces, 6-3. Allison made a match of it in the second set, but Tilden served five love games to win at 9-7. In the presence of the King, Queen and Prince George, who is President of the all England Club which runs Wimbledon, Tilden won the last set and match...
After Van Ryn had beaten Wilmer Allison in the finals and the Davis Cup team had been picked, fresh arguments broke out. Van Ryn, Allison, George Lott, John Doeg?all under 25?were put on the team, with William Tatem Tilden II (now in Europe) still a possibility (he says now he does not want to play again). But Bell too had been picked?he would go along as a substitute...
...William T. Tilden 2d, Philadelphia. 2) Francis T. Hunter, New Rochelle, N. Y. 3) John Doeg, Santa Monica, Calif. 4) George M. Lott Jr., Chicago. 5) John Van Ryn, Orange, N. J. 6) Frederick Mercur, Harrisburg, Pa. 7) Wilmer Allison, Austin, Tex. 8) Wilbur F. Coen, Kansas City. 9) Berkeley Bell, Dallas, Tex. 10) Gregory Mangin, Newark...