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...Coste announced that he was too sick to play. French newspapers generously warned Vines not to eat pork and cucumber the day before he played Henri Cochet. as he had done before playing Gottfried von Cramm. Vines was not warned about eating cucumbers before his match with Jean Borotra because even the most optimistic Frenchmen took it for granted that Vines would win this match no matter what...
Vines, when he ambled out, seemed to have the same idea. Wearing his white flannel cap, he was as nonchalant as usual against a Borotra who still had his blue beret but seemed to have lost some of the gay bounce that used to go with it. Borotra broke Vines's serve in the first game, rushed the net steadily on his own, hit his volleys crisp and hard. He took the first set 6-4. Borotra waited till Vines had him 4-2 in the third set before he stopped running for hard shots, let Vines have...
When they came out to the court again after the rest, no one would have been much surprised to see Borotra tire or to see Vines's strokes begin to flash and sparkle as they had at Wimbledon. Borotra won the first game on his own. serve. The match stopped while policemen interrupted a fight in the grandstand. Vines won three games. Borotra won them back. Serving at 4-5, Vines slammed his cannonball into the court but the clay made it bounce slowly. At match point, he netted a drive and ran up to the net to shake...
...victory over Germany set the stage for a Davis Cup challenge round in which the U. S. had a better chance than it has had since 1927, when Cochet. La Coste and Borotra beat William Tatem Tilden II, his dear friend Francis Hunter and William Johnston. Even supposing that Cochet was as good as ever, of which no body who saw him lose in Wimbledon's second round could be quite sure, the rest of the team was almost certainly weaker this year. Captain and Reserve Singles Player René Lacoste, who has been trying to make a comeback this year...
...knew that only three nations had a chance and that at least one new tennis phenomenon must be found to take the Davis Cup away from France. Failing the phenomenal, aging (32) Henri Cochet would be enough to keep it another year in France especially if aided by Jean Borotra, 33. Also at hand this year is Rene Lacoste, 27, who helped take the Cup from the U. S. in 1927, retired in 1929 and will attempt a comeback this week against the British...