Word: cochet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard sports during 1926-1927. This film was gotten up by the H. A. A. and will be shown at all Harvard Clubs throughout the country. Following these reels, three more will be shown in slow motion. These are American Lawn Tennis Association films and show Tilden, Cochet and Lacoste in action. In connection with these latter reels, it is hoped that tennis Coach, H. L. Cowles, will speak...
Last week at the National Singles Tennis Championship at Forest Hills, Long Island, William T. Tilden II tried for a record. He tried to match William A. Larned's list of seven national championships. Tilden has six. Last year Henri Cochet of France robbed him of his chance to tie R. D. Sears's record, seven successive championships; Rene Lacoste be- came 1926 champion...
...last week, Rene Lacoste and Henri Cochet, French by blood, birth and habit, accustomed to wining with their meals, to puffing tasteless "Maryland" cigarets, to dissipating as only a French gourmet can?these men won the world's highest tennis honors from hardy, ascetic...
...faced Cochet. The Frenchman won the first set 6-4, but Johnston was hardly warmed to the game. The U. S. man took the second set 4-6. Cochet, mak-ing a desperate rally, won the third 6-2. The fourth stood at 2-5 in favor of Cochet. Johnston exerted every ounce of muscle, pulled the set up to 4-5. Then, Cochet won the last game and the Davis cup passed, for the first time in history, to France...
Spectators were 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...