Word: lott
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). In his open letter to the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association, said he: "I shall never coach professionally, but I will always be glad to help any person in the tennis ranks whom I care to. . . . The future Davis Cup Team . . . should be built around [George] Lott...
After Doeg and Tilden the ground becomes increasingly treacherous. TIME OUT has made the following list: no. 3, Shields; no. 4, Sidney Wood; no. 5, Allison; no. 6, Sutter; no. 7, Mangin; no. 8, Lott; no. 9, Vines; and no. 10, Van Ryn. This list omits Mercur, Bell, Hunter, and Coen of last year's elite. Of these Mercur finished up a bad season by being declared a professional, while the other three merely failed to keep pace with the rising tide of youthful stars which made the past season such a significant one in the development of American tennis...
...George Lott of Chicago and John Doeg of Santa Monica were seeded No. i-the defending champions-when the national doubles tennis tournament started last week at the Longwood Cricket Club at Chestnut Hill, Mass. Form ran true, and the first four seeded teams got into the semifinals. John Van Ryn and Wilmer Allison put out Berkeley Bell and Gregory Mangin, 6-8, 6-4, 6-4, 6-3. Then Doeg & Lott had to beat Tilden & Hunter, knowing that Hunter was playing much better and that Tilden, though he had a bad charley-horse in his hip, wanted moje than...
After Van Ryn had beaten Wilmer Allison in the finals and the Davis Cup team had been picked, fresh arguments broke out. Van Ryn, Allison, George Lott, John Doeg?all under 25?were put on the team, with William Tatem Tilden II (now in Europe) still a possibility (he says now he does not want to play again). But Bell too had been picked?he would go along as a substitute...
...faced, left-handed John Doeg, No. 3 ranking U. S. tennis player: the Southeastern championship in St. Augustine, beating J. Gilbert Hall in an exciting match on clay courts after Hall had him match-point. A few days later Doeg lost a local tournament finals match to George M. Lott Jr. of Chicago...