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...Detroit last week the young, sanguine U. S. tennis team won the American zone Davis Cup preliminaries by taking five matches from some torpid Cubans (Ricardo Morales, Herman Uppman, Gustavo Vollmer). The youngsters-Wilmer Allison, John Hennessey, George Lott, John Van Ryn-then sailed for England, there to team with William Tatem Tilden II and Francis T. Hunter. This U. S. sextet will play the winner of the English-Italian European zone finals for the privilege of meeting France, possessor of the Davis...
...deciding match of the international tennis exhibition series, last week at the Germantown Cricket Club, was between Jean Borotra-Jacques Brugnon of France and George M. Lott Jr. John Hennessey of the U. S. Borotra killed more U. S. lobs than he made errors; and that was the way the French pair won the match...
...faster singles, Henri Cochet trounced Lott and Borotra was extended to defeat Hennessey...
Said William Tatem Tilden, II, writing for a news syndicate: "I hope to see the [national doubles] title stay here in our country, but I fear that it will go 'down under.' " Racqueteer-Writer Tilden was reporting the straight set victory of George M. Lott Jr. & John F. Hennessey, U. S. netsters, over Frenchmen Henri Cochet & Jacques Brugnon, in the semi-final round. The following day Lott & Hennessey came out on the courts of the Longwood Cricket Club, Chestnut Hill, Mass., defeated the Australian team, Gerald L. Patterson & John B. Hawkes, by the identical score of the victory...
John Van Ryn spent the spring at Princeton because it was his senior year; George M. Lott went abroad on the Davis Cup squad, played tennis. Yet Van Ryn extended Lott to five sets last week before Lott turned Van Ryn into a pillar of fault, ran out the match, won his first leg on the Newport (R. I.) Casino singles cup. The same afternoon Lott, paired with John (California) Doeg, bested Van Ryn and Wilmer (Texas) Allison in the doubles final. Lott may play freshman tennis next spring at Brown University, which last week admitted him to its rolls...