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...defending Canadian champion, but Fritz Mercur of Harrisburg, Pa., seventh in the U. S. ranking, put him out. Willard Crocker, Marcel Rainville, Charles Leslie, Brian Doherty, Canadians all, were in the quarterfinals. None of them got in the semifinals. The finals, as everyone expected, were between Mercur and George Lott. Mercur took the first set from Lott, who starts slowly. With a set apiece, dark-haired, straight-featured Mercur forced Lott into errors, returned apparently impossible shots. He had almost enough nerve left to win the next set, but not quite. Then Lott ran out the match. The score...
...Davis Cup Team, should be able to bring tennis prestige to the Crimson by means of international competition. The ranks of the future Davis Cup teams will have to be filled with youthful college players who will be able to wrest the championship away from the French. Lott, Doeg, Allison and Van Ryn are well on the way now to accomplishing this and it is likely that Harvard's three representatives will some day take their places alongside of them...
Wood is the only New England played to be mentioned for the team, and he will be in company with such well-known players as W. T. Tilden, III. Francis Hunter, George Lott, Wilmer Allison, and John Van Ryn, all of whom have represented the United States in other Davis Cup tilts...
However that may be, there is no question that guessing is good sport is almost any line, and it is in this general spirit that the following ranking is offered for approval. No. 1--Tilden; no. 2--Hunter; no. 3--Lott; no. 4--Doeg; no. 5--Van Ryn; no. 6--Mercur; no. 7--Allison; no. 8--Shields; no. 9--Coen; no. 10--Bell. The objections will be strongest to the last three. A good many will insist that Shields is too high, that Coen ought not be ranked, and that Mangin ought to receive consideration somewhere. And maybe they...
Higher up there should be less question though some might consider Mercur overrated to a certain degree. He certainly handed Allison a most artistic beating in the Nationals, and compiled an impressive record for steady good play. Some would like to see Lott above Hunter, and a good many would like to see Doeg down the list some distance, but these two seem to have earned their ranking, even if there are few who can explain it reasonably...