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...taught the public to like professional tennis exhibitions, grossed $243,000 from 352,412 customers. But no theatrical producer puts on the same thing year after year. Casting about for a new act to liven up his show, Promoter O'Brien selected the great doubles team of George Lott and Lester Stoefen. Three weeks ago Tennist Lott capitulated to Mr. O'Brien's cash proposal. Last week Tennist Stoefen, who with Lott scored the only U. S. point against Britain in the Davis Cup challenge round at Wimbledon last August, decided to turn his pastime into...
...Bunny" Austin who dislikes the strain of a long tournament. With these exceptions the names on the West Side Club scoreboards include nearly all the best players in the world. Topping the list are the members of the U. S. Davis Cup team, Sidney Wood, Frank Shields, George Lott and Lester Stoefen. Experts wondered how o rate the chances of Berkeley Bell, once No. 9 but now No. 18 in national ranking, who has won nine tournaments this season; of youthful oldtimers like John Van Ryn, Wilmer Allison, Bryan Grant and Clifford Sutter: of the latest batch of promising youngsters...
...front cover) Frederick John Perry last week blacked his eye on an awning rod bowing to Helen Jacobs, threw a handful of rolls at Lester Stoefen, appeared with a wave in his hair. At Germantown, Pa., George Lott and Lester Stoefen retained their U. S. doubles championship by defeating John Van Ryn and Wilmer Allison 6-4, 9-7, 3-6, 6-4. At Rye, N. Y., most of the first-class tennists in the U. S. assembled to put the finishing touches on their games. In the citified suburb of Forest Hills. L. I., groundskeepers rolled, clipped and patted...
...Champion Frederick J. Perry or if Shields could beat England's No. 2 dapper little Henry Wilfred ("Bunny") Austin, the U. S. had a fine chance to win the Davis Cup for the first time in eight years. In the other three matches, it was agreed that George Lott and Lester Stoefen could scarcely fail to demolish any doubles team England could put on the court; that Wood would probably beat Austin; and that Perry would certainly beat Shields. The draw scheduled both crucial singles matches for the first day of the series...
...days later, Lott & Stoefen had more trouble than they expected beating Harold George Newcombe Lee and George Patrick Hughes, 7-5, 6-0, 4-6, 9-7. The forlorn chance that the U. S. might repeat its performance of the week before disappeared next day when Perry beat Shields, 6-4, 4-6, 6-2, 15-13. In the last match of the series Austin beat Wood...