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...Longwood invitation tournament was interesting last week for two reasons. Helen Wills Moody, entered with Mrs. George Wightman in the women's doubles, was making her first appearance on eastern courts since 1929. John Doeg, of Newark, N. J., U. S. champion and first ranking player, was trying to get permanent possession of the Longwood Bowl by winning it for the third time. No one thought he could do it, because at Montclair, N. J. last fortnight he had shown himself to be wholly out of practice by losing to an obscure opponent in straight sets...
...Twenty Grand, champion three-year-old race horse, owned by Mrs. Payne Whitney: the Dwyer Stakes, at Aqueduct, L. I. At odds of i to 50, increasing his total winnings to $175,575. C. David Jones, Eastern intercollegiate tennis champion: a Montclair, N. J. match against John Hope Doeg, No. i amateur of the U. S. and National Champion; 6-3, 6-1 in 35 minutes...
...tennis. When Johnston retired, Richards turned professional, Williams grew too veteran to be brilliant for more than a day at a time, there appeared on the scene a great second-growth of younger players. These-George Lott, John Van Ryn, Berkeley Bell, Gregory Mangin, Wilmer Allison, John Hennessey; John Doeg-were the ones who caused the difficulty. All were young collegians, and they looked as much alike as so many agitated and disobliging Chinamen. One or two of them, it was first supposed, would emerge from the rest and become champions, but this never seemed to happen. U. S. tennis...
...changes were two. First, John Hope Doeg, lefthanded, 22, nephew of famed May Sutton Bundy, youngest of the younger players, emerged and won the National Championship at Forest Hills. Second, three new players, younger than the "younger players" and with normal personal differentiation, made their appearance. These were Frank Shields, im- mensely tall, convivial and handsome, Roxbury graduate; Sidney Wood, a yellow-haired, wiry, California youth, with a delicate physique but strong wrists and forearms; and Clifford Sutler, a cherub-faced collegian from New Orleans, with self-consciously graceful but effective ground strokes...
After winning the National championship, Doeg married, set to work on his father-in-law's Newark, N. J. Evening News, announced that he would probably play little tennis in 1931 except to defend his title at Forest Hills. Clifford Sutter last week was winning the Tri-State Tour- nament in Memphis, Tennessee. The other two, Shields and Wood, together with Henri Cochet; John Van Ryn; Jean Borotra, who airplaned back to Paris for business between matches; Bunny Austin, balloon-trousered British Davis Cup player; George Lyttleton Rogers, a big Irishman with a hooked nose; Jiro Satoh, the champion...