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Francis Hunter, who ranks second only to Tilden among American players and who was the finalist against Jean Borotra last year, will be the favorite, but by no means a top-heavy one, in an exceptionally strong field. Coggeshall ranks fourteenth in the country, and he is expected to be an easy winner in the opening rounds. Murphy, who was national indoor junior champion in 1929, forced Coggeshall to five sets in the University tournament last fall, and should do even better on the hardwood courts. According to Coach Harry Cowles, the Harvard freshman should be conceded an almost even...
William Tatem Tilden II, paired with an Englishman, won a tennis doubles match in Paris from Jean Borotra, paired with a Chilean. The stake: Christmas dinner...
Youth, personified by George M. Lott Jr., whom the U. S. substituted the week of the matches for seasoned Francis T. Hunter, was inadequate before Jean Borotra, who leaped about...
...Youth rose up invincible when John Van Ryn and Wilmer Allison, new British doubles champions, met Cochet & Borotra. Winning 6-1, 8-6, 6-4, they stood forth as the most smooth-running doubles team in the game today...
When Tilden played Borotra, a great career, at least, ended appropriately. Borotra took a set before the Tilden placements began to find their marks. Then Borotra had to leap indeed, to race backwards, forwards and sideways. Wearied by the doubles of the day before, he was utterly exhausted when the umpire called the final point Tilden's. The score...