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...Long, thin Ellsworth Vines, U: S. tennis singles champion: his 14th tournament this year, beating Frederick Perry of England 6-3, 21-19, 6-0, in the final of the Pacific Coast championship; at San Francisco...
...quarterfinals, four fair-haired young players played four black-haired ones. Three of the fair-haireds?Henry Ellsworth Vines Jr., John Hope Doeg and George Martin Lott Jr.?beat Bell, Francis Xavier Shields and John Van Ryn, respectively. The only dark-haired player in the semi-finals was also the only Englishman in the tournament, Frederick J. Perry, onetime ping-pong champion and No. 2 singles player on the British Davis Cup team. His semi-final match with Vines was generally regarded as the one which would decide the championship. Vines won, after losing the first two sets...
...Ellsworth Vines Jr. of Pasadena and Frederick J. Perry of London were the two most interesting players in the National Doubles Championship at the Longwood Cricket Club last week. Vines, whose father owns a chain of Pacific Coast meat stores, has been the sensation of this year's early season tournaments. He won the Longwood and Seabright invitation tournaments, won again at Newport last fortnight, where he beat Perry in the finals. A lanky youth who often plays in a broad white linen cap. he uses a slice serve, an Eastern grip for his smooth flat drives. Perry played...
...Bull, president of the Saratoga Association. ¶Temperamental, towheaded George Martin Lott Jr.: the Meadow Club Invitation Tennis Tournament, at Southamp- ton, N. Y.; beating Clifford Sutter 6-3, 3-6, 2-6, 6-3, 6-1 in the finals after winning his semi-final match with ailing Ellsworth Vines by default. ¶Maxie Rosenbloom: a poorly attended, poorly contested prizefight in which he defended his light heavyweight championship against Jimmy Slattery, in Brooklyn, by slapping Slattery gently for 15 rounds between which Champion Rosenbloom chatted with his seconds about matters not pertaining to the fight. ¶Charles Ferrara...
Last week, Ellsworth Vines was in the Sea Bright finals again. This time his opponent was John Hope Doeg, U. S. champion. Doeg's play in the early rounds had been weakly erratic-he played a deuce-set match in the first round, dropped a set to an obscure player in the second, almost lost his next match to an exhausted opponent, barely got past a Californian named Jack Tidball in the semifinals. He had already confessed that he did not expect to regain the U. S. championship this year and the readiness with which he had turned...