Word: lotte
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...third prominent candidate for court honors during the next few months is W. C. Thompson '32, number seven for Harvard last year; Thompson looked unusually good this winter in the Canadian indoor championship playoffs, when matched against George Lott, Davis Cup player, who was continually forced to the wall by the Harvard man. Lott finally won the match, but Thompson's performance excited considerable comment on the part of experts watching the play...
...Wilmer Allison of Austin, Tex.: the Houston Invitation Tennis Tournament, Dealing Jack Hess (8-6, 6-3, 6-2) in the final. The two highest ranking players in the U. S.?Champion Ellsworth Vines and George Lott Jr.?were beaten by obscure players in the second and third rounds...