Word: lotte
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Longwood. In the first set, young Frank Andrew Parker was erratic and his tall partner, Francis Xavier Shields, had to make most of the impossible gets, the titanic smashes that finally won, 13-11. Wily George Lott and willowy Lester Stoefen, smoothing out the soft spots in his game as the match wore on, concen- trated on Parker in the next two sets and won them both at 9-7. In the fourth set, Shields & Parker worked the score up to 3-all. Then Lott won his serve, Parker lost his, and Stoefen won his-for set match...
Encouraged to team together by Bernon S. Prentice, non-playing captain of this year's U. S. Davis Cup team, Lott & Stoefen proved one thing by their victory last week: that Chicago's hairy, hard-bitten George Martin Lott Jr. is the best doubles player in the U. S., if not in the world. Last week's doubles title was his fourth. He won in 1928 with John F. Hennessey, in 1929 and 1930 with John Hope Doeg. Saturnine, good-humored, Lott's doubles game is noteworthy for steadiness, tactical brilliance, unwillingness to be discouraged...
...with more first class foreign players than any U. S. championship in years was not the only thing that gave last week's tournament at Brookline a special importance. Coming after the closest Davis Cup matches on record, it was a chance to try out new combinations, like Lott & Stoefen, Crawford & McGrath. Furthermore, it gave U. S. tennis followers their first brief glimpse of the player who has become indisputably, for this year at least, the world's No. 1. Last winter Jack Crawford won the Australian singles championship at Melbourne, beating Keith Gledhill in the final...
...Favorites to prevent Crawford from completing his clean sweep at Forest Hills this week will be Vines, Perry and Shields, three players who certainly belong in the world's first four but whose ratings in relation to each other experts have difficulty in deciding. Others-like Allison and Lott; Sidney Wood, who has slipped since winning at Wimbledon in 1931 but might come back; Stoefen, who is so impressive on the court that nothing he might do would be surprising-would be capable, on their best days, of beating any of the first four. Forest Hills usually turns...
...been the prodigy of U. S. tennis almost as long as Vincent Richards was. He still emphasizes his youth with peculiar baggy knickerbockers which hang down to his shins. Almost unbeatable on clay, he should be a member of next year's Davis Cup team, think Lott and Vines. Parker's father, Paul Pajowski, is dead. His mother entrusts him to the care of famed Tennis Coach Mercer Beasley, who fervently hopes he will get beyond his present height of 5 ft. 9½in. Beasley's greeting to Parker when he returned from six weeks abroad...