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...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...
...Egypt. The French, defending Davis Cup champions since 1927, were alarmed, but not by numbers. They 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...
...Henri Cochet, of France, world's ablest tennis amateur, confided to friends that he was going to turn professional. They expected him to sign a contract (like William Tatem Tilden II, Vincent Richards, Karel Kozeluh) with fat Jack Curley, who is now scouting Europe for wrestling talent...
...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...
...Austin -7-5, 6-3, 3-6, 7-5. The sequence of matches so far had exactly followed that of the England v. U. S. matches a week before. Could they follow the same sequence for one match more? For a time, the sign painter must have been worried. Cochet won the first set 6-4, dropped the next 1-6, had trouble in the third when Perry, who learned his slamming, acrobatic game on London public courts, killed Cochet's weak lobs and ran the score to 7-all. Then Cochet steadied...