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...Gregory Mangin, of Newark, N. J., who has never won an important tournament outdoors: his second consecutive U. S. Indoor Tennis Championship against a crack field including Clifford Sutler, Francis. Shields, George Lott, Berkeley Bell; 6-1. 6-3, 2-6, 3-6, 6-2, in the final against Sutter; in Manhattan. ¶ Glenn Cunningham of Kansas: a mile race in the Knights of Columbus Games, with Glen Dawson of Tulsa second, Carl Coan of Penn third and Gene Venzke of Penn, who set the world's record of 4:10 a year ago and has hitherto been Cunningham...
Spectators at Forest Hills last week were well aware of Frankie Parker, most amazing tennis phenomenon of the year, who has four times this season beaten the No. 2 U. S. player, George Lott Jr. Most spectators knew that he had been tutored by Mercer Beasley, tennis coach at Tulane University and instructor at the Detroit Tennis Club. Beasley's other pupils- Vines, Sutter, Carolyn Babcock-have done so well this year and last that Beasley has become the best known teacher in the history of U. S. tennis. Had he been at Forest Hills last week instead...
...tired, won in five sets 1-6, 4-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-1. The match put them in the semi-finals against Ellsworth Vines & Keith Gledhill, Vines's best friend who he thinks should have been on the Davis Cup team. The other semifinalists were George Lott Jr. & Frank Shields and the defending champions, John Van Ryn & Wilmer Allison. It often happens, despite careful seeding, that the best match in a national tournament comes in the semi-finals and it happened last week, when Van Ryn & Allison played Lott & Shields. Lott is undoubtedly the ablest doubles player...
...Chicago, 16-year-old Frank Parker of Milwaukee played George Lott Jr., second-ranking player in the U. S., in the third round of the Western championship. Parker playing in short trousers and barelegged, won 6-3, 2-6, 6-4, 3~6 6-3. . In the semi-finals he beat Tilden's onetime protege Junior Coen 6-4, 6-1 5-7,6-2. In the final his opponent was huge (6 11 6 in.) Lester Stoeffen of Los Angeles. Parker...
Davis Cup, For the first round of the tournament against Canada, at Washington's Chevy Chase Club April 28-30, the Davis Cup Committee last week named the U. S. team: Ellsworth Vines, Jr., Francis Xavier Shields, John Van Ryn, Wilmer Allison. George Lott Jr., second to Vines in the U. S. ranking and doubles partner of Van Ryn on last year's team, said that business would prevent him from playing Davis Cup matches this year. Allison replaced him. This year's team will be built around Champion Vines, who has never played tennis abroad...