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...Davis Cup team this year, because he was too old (34) it became easier to see how the challenge round against England would turn out. The weak member of the French team was un doubtedly young left-handed André Merlin, fourth ranking player of France, who had impressed Cochet and Lacoste, the non-playing captain, as more determined than Christian Boussus, who ranks a notch ahead of him. If Merlin lost his matches to Perry and Austin, Borotra and Brugnon would have to win the doubles, Cochet would have to win both his singles matches. Most observers conceded...
...teammates by losing to Harry Lee of England. Ellsworth Vines twisted his ankle but proved it was nothing serious by making short work of little Ryusaka Miki of Japan. Next day Lester Stoefen of Texas and George Patrick Hughes of Ireland defeated Lee and Clifford Sutter, respectively. Little Henri Cochet. who had been riding a bicycle to harden his leg muscles, did amazingly well for an oldster of 31 but when he played Vines in the semifinal, he lost to him for the third time in a row. In the other bracket Jack Crawford of Australia beat Jiroh Satdh...
...Wimble don since Gerald Patterson in 1922, Craw ford last week clearly made himself the tennis player of the year. His victory over Vines was only a little more alarming, from the point of view of U. S. chances in the Davis Cup, than his defeat of Cochet in the French hard court championships a month ago. Red-faced, beefy, tireless and, except for the fact that his backhand is more defensive than a world-champion's should be. without a noticeable weakness on the court, he used to lose his matches with his temper until a year...
...Apprentice-Jockey Jack Westrope, 16: five races in a single afternoon,* on horses Bedight, Lady Menifee, Whirling, Cold Check and Prince Farthing; at Washington Park, Chicago. ¶ Jack Crawford, Australian tennis player: the French hard court singles title, defeating Henri Cochet in the final, 8-6, 6-1, 6-3; at Auteuil, France...
...Paris, to which the French brought him when he was nine years old, jolly little Bao Dai tried his best to learn everything, mastered modern languages and mathematics, took tennis lessons from Henri Cochet, learned from stern French cavalry tutors to jump a horse. In the end His Majesty came to excel at ping pong...