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...arguments, predictions, plans and surprises which precede the big tennis tournaments of the season?starting with the British championship at Wimbledon June 22?began last week in Paris where Jean Borotra was engaged in winning the French hard court singles championship; at South Orange, N. J., where U. S. Champion John Hope Doeg was winning an annual invitation tournament; and at Washington, D. C., where a young U. S. Davis Cup team (Sidney Wood, Francis Shields, Clifford Sutter) speedily eliminated Argentina 3 to 0 from the final round of the American Zone Davis Cup matches. In the quarter-finals...
...crowd which had paid $40,000 to be in Madison Square Garden Tilden put the first ball of the first match in play and Richards returned it. Much fatter than he was in the old days, but still fast, a strong server, and with the possible exception of Borotra the best volleyer in the world, Richards had warmed up for the match by beating John Doeg, national amateur champion, four straight sets on an indoor court. Now, against Tilden, he started coming up to the net, ran out the first set 7-5. This first set seemed at terrific speed...
...National Indoor Tennis Championship is sometimes played in Manhattan during the first two weeks in February. This year it was postponed to accommodate the invading French leader. Jean Borotra, who last week won first the doubles championship with his young left-handed partner. Christian Boussus, and next day the singles championship, beating Berkeley Bell, 6-1, 3-6, 6-4, 3-6, 6-4 in the final...
Dapper, gay, demonstrative Jean Borotra has made himself a millionaire in the gasoline pump business while performing in Davis Cup matches and international tournaments since 1923. Last week he dictated a letter to his secretary while riding in a taxicab to play his final match. Bell, who has beaten him once before, served well but so did Borotra, who threw two points in the third set, loafed in the fourth, broke through Bell's serve once in the fifth, then ended the match with a love game...
...George H. ("Pete") Bostwick, famed young poloist and gentleman jockey: the Byers Cup golf tournament at Aiken, S. C. C. Grinning, feline Jean Borotra; Tilden-esque Francis Shields; curly-haired Clif- ford Sutter; stumble-footed Berkeley Bell: their easy first-round tennis matches in the National Indoor Singles Championships; in Manhattan...