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Last year it was Henri Cochet and Ellsworth Vines. Last week William Tatem Tilden II and his promoter William O'Brien had a new attraction for their annual tennis tour: the ''best doubles team in the world," George Lott & Lester Stoefen...
...York, May 24 Ellsworth vines of Pasadena, cal., and Bill Tilden of Philadelphia, today defeated the two French aces, Henri Cochet and Martin Plaa, in opening play of the final round robin in the Eastern Professional Tennis Championships...
...first time Henri Cochet visited the U. S., in 1921, he was a member of Suzanne Lenglen's entourage. It was his job to run out on the tennis court with smelling-salts when she felt indisposed. The last time he left the U. S., in 1932, he had just lost to Ellsworth Vines in the finals of the National Singles Championship at Forest Hills. He denounced tournament, courts, officials, vowed never to come back. Last week Cochet broke his vow when he and stubby little Martin Plaa, for five years trainer of French Davis Cup teams, started...
...Manhattan last week, in the first two-night series of the tour, Tilden and Vines won all five matches. Closest was the Tilden v. Cochet singles-7-9, 6-1, 4-6, 6-3. 6-3 for Tilden. Critics considered it the best professional tennis ever played in the U. S., found Tilden and Cochet as evenly matched as they were when they played against each other in the National Singles at Forest Hills in 1926. Cochet, still trying to accustom himself to artificial lights and the green canvas court which is part of the baggage of a Tilden tennis...
...have one, but I'm not going to say what it is," said Big Bill laughing. "After all, Vines and Cochet are around...