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...make a comeback this year, caught tonsilitis last week, persuaded 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...
...Helen Wills Moody & Miss Elizabeth Ryan: the French women's tennis doubles championship; at Auteuil. C. Henri Cochet & Jacques Brugnon: the French men's tennis doubles championships...
...doubles, Cochet and his partner Jacques ("Toto") Brugnon had less trouble than the score, 6-1, 5-7, 6-3, 8-6, implied against Irish George Patrick Hughes and Charles H. Kingsley, former Oxford team captain, who used to give Perry a rest before his match with Cochet...
Teamed together in the doubles, Wood & Shields lost their match to Henri Cochet and Jacques Brugnon the day after the singles semifinals. Shields, because he found his leg still hurt badly, then de faulted the singles to Wood. Wood thus became the youngest of all Wimbledon champions, the only man in Wimbledon's 54 years who has won without playing in the finals...
...over. George Lott Jr., who last year declined to be a "tennis bum" but still tours the world playing tennis, and John Van Ryn, who jumps around the court as though his legs were pogo-sticks, won the doubles championship in a long match against Henri Cochet and Jacques Brugnon ? 6-2, 10-8, 9-11, 3-6, 6-3. Two British women, Mrs. D. C. Shepherd-Barron and Phyllis Mudford, be came women's doubles champions. Mixed doubles champions were George Lott Jr. and Mrs. Lawrence A. Harper, a slim, serious Californian who plays with a bandeau around...