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This moment embraced the four seconds required to play the fifth point of the ninth game of the fifth set of William Tatem Tilden's match against Henri Cochet of France. Tilden lost the point. He lost the match. He has lost other matches, but never one like this. Cochet, who had won the second and third sets and had a lead of 4-1 in the fifth, seemed sure to win when Tilden started his rally. He had Cochet 40-15. And then, his fire waned, the reserve which had never failed before failed...
Concerning the technique of Cochet's victory-how he popped back cannonball serves, how he outthought Tilden, how with the first ball played he started Tilden on a long run from the backcourt to the net and from baseline to baseline, a run that never stopped until Tilden, gasping, twisted his haggard face into a smile and shook hands with his conqueror-critics will hold forth for some time to come. Indeed, critics and officials alike were so interested in the champion's debacle that they forgot about everything else, and William Johnston and Jean Borotra started their...
...significant. On the third day of the series the U. S., acquiring the necessary three points, had made sure of retaining it: William Johnston .had beaten René Lacoste, Tilden had beaten Jean Borotra, Vincent Richards and R. Norris Williams had won their doubles match from Henri Cochet and Jacques Brugnon. But a great issue was in the balance, and Tilden, as he put down the towel and prepared to receive Lacoste's service, was quite aware that this issue might be swayed, for good or evil, by the grass-stain on his trousers...
Before the national doubles tournament started last week in Brookline, Mass., most observers were ready to agree that the two best doubles players in the U. S. were probably a pair of Frenchmen. There was Henri ("Ricochet") Cochet and his excitable partner, Jacques Brugnon, champions of France and winners last June at Wimbledon. There was Jean René Lacoste and Jean Borotra, the "Bounding Basque." None of the U. S. players looked very strong; William T. Tilden, of course-but then Tilden never takes doubles literally. He prefers to play with some youth who, overcome at the honor of being...
Their proof was better ever than their promise. They dropped very few games to Cochet and Brugnon and when William Johnston and Edward Chandler had disposed of Lacoste and Borotra the foreign menace had evaporated. Tilden and young Alfred Chapin met Richards and Williams in the finals...