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...surprises which precede the big tennis tournaments of the season?starting with the British championship at Wimbledon June 22?began last week in Paris where Jean Borotra was engaged in winning the French hard court singles championship; at South Orange, N. J., where U. S. Champion John Hope Doeg was winning an annual invitation tournament; and at Washington, D. C., where a young U. S. Davis Cup team (Sidney Wood, Francis Shields, Clifford Sutter) speedily eliminated Argentina 3 to 0 from the final round of the American Zone Davis Cup matches. In the quarter-finals of the Paris tournament were...
...ball of the first match in play and Richards returned it. Much fatter than he was in the old days, but still fast, a strong server, and with the possible exception of Borotra the best volleyer in the world, Richards had warmed up for the match by beating John Doeg, national amateur champion, four straight sets on an indoor court. Now, against Tilden, he started coming up to the net, ran out the first set 7-5. This first set seemed at terrific speed, but in the next set Tilden began really to unleash his serve. As Richards...
...strong, swart Francis X. Shields, 20. J. B. Adoue Jr. is the non-playing captain. He was picked because he is an experienced player and because he lives in Dallas, Tex., so that it will be easy and cheap for him to get to Mexico. National Champion John Doeg was not picked because he announced that he could not take time off from business (advertising) to play in Davis Cup matches this year...
Died. Wallace Mcllvaine Scudder, 77, founder and publisher since 1883 of the Newark, N. J. Evening News, philanthropist, onetime engineer, attorney, grandfather of Dorothea Scudder who married U. S. Tennis Champion John Hope Doeg last month (TIME, Feb. 9); of heart disease; in Newark. A liberal, non-partisan journalist who built up his paper's influence by the force of his own personality, he was a relic of journalism's "old school": Whitelaw Reid, Charles Anderson Dana, Joseph Pulitzer, Henry Watterson, James Gordon Bennett...
...John Hope Doeg 1. Mrs. L. A. Harp