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...hope to see the [national doubles] title stay here in our country, but I fear that it will go 'down under.' " Racqueteer-Writer Tilden was reporting the straight set victory of George M. Lott Jr. & John F. Hennessey, U. S. netsters, over Frenchmen Henri Cochet & Jacques Brugnon, in the semi-final round. The following day Lott & Hennessey came out on the courts of the Longwood Cricket Club, Chestnut Hill, Mass., defeated the Australian team, Gerald L. Patterson & John B. Hawkes, by the identical score of the victory over the French...
...sorry thus to see all the young men go down before all the old men. The day before, the young men had swept the French menace from the tournament, Hennessey and Williams defeating, unexpectedly, Jean Borotra and Rene Lacoste; Lott and Doeg defeating, also unexpectedly, Henri Cochet and Jacques Brugnon...
...Gordon Rentschler (National City Bank). Though he is a partner of Dillon, Read & Co., most people know Dean Mathey as a tennis player who, in 1916, was ranked No. 10 by the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association. Last winter, he and Watson M. Washburn (Harvard man) forced Borotra and Brugnon, French invading champions, to a five-set match before accepting defeat in the Heights Casino indoor tournament in Brooklyn. "For an old banker," Mr. Mathey thinks this highly commendable. One other trustee, Frederick P. Scott, 1900, was elected to the Board from the Sixth Region (Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North...
After Tilden and Hunter had been defeated in the decisive doubles match by Borotra and Brugnon, Tilden remarked with an effort at gallantry: "Don't blame the junior member of our team. . . . The junior member of the American team played great tennis...
...amateur indoor tennis tournament held in the Seventh Regiment Armory, Manhattan, again proved a purely French triumph. Jean Borotra and Jacques Brugnon met Francis T. Hunter and Dr. George King in the doubles final; conquered, 7-5, 6-3, 6-3. Borotra then whipped Brugnon in the singles, 6-2, 6-4, 6-3. Partisan U. S. spectators derived negative satisfaction in reflecting that the entry list had not included Tilden, Johnston...