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...success of the tour pointed up for this week's Pittsburgh meeting of the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association old talk about an open tennis tournament. With crack players like Vines, Tilden, Richards, Barnes, Cochet and Nusslein in professional ranks, many tennis enthusiasts hold that the only real test of tennis supremacy would be a tournament comprised of amateurs and professionals. Much red tape between the U. S. L. T. A. and the International Lawn Tennis Federation would have to be cut before a U. S. open could be sanctioned. Even its most optimistic advocates last week...
Last month Tilden dangled the bait again, this time $25,000 down, $25,000 guaranteed profits from "byproducts" (i.e., endorsements). All Vines had to do was join Tilden and Frenchman Henri Cochet on an eight-month playing tour beginning next January with a Vines-Tilden match in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden Tilden planned to call the tour a "professional Davis Cup series." He slyly reminded Vines that his amateur career, begun so spectacularly, seemed to have fizzled. Sadly Vines agreed that he "was dead, killed by too much tennis and too many officials." Last week he took...
...Paris, famed Henri Cochet, No. 1 tennist of France, finally stopped denying rumors, increasingly persistent for the last two years, that he would turn professional. His plans: a series of matches, with Martin Plaa for partner, v. William Tilden II and Bruce Barnes, late this month...
...hard-serving Californian and a steady Australian-when Brookes played Maurice McLoughlin in the Davis Cup matches at Forest Hills in 1914 and lost, after one of the longest first sets on record, 15-17, 3-6, 3-6. Since Tilden's retirement to professional tennis and Cochet's unmistakable decline, tennis has had no completely preeminent player. Favorites to prevent Crawford from completing his clean sweep at Forest Hills this week will be Vines, Perry and Shields, three players who certainly belong in the world's first four but whose ratings in relation to each other...
...which belies the fact that he taught himself tennis on London's public courts, became world's ping pong champion before he made a Davis Cup team. For England, at least, Perry is the No. 1 player of 1933. He beat McGrath. then Allison and Vines, then Cochet and Merlin in this year's Davis Cup matches. If he gets what he calls a "good win:" over Crawford, whom he has not played this year, it will be in the final at Forest Hills, because they will doubtless be in opposite halves of the draw...