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Tilden, Hunter, Lott, and Chandler, will make up this country's Davis Cup team, Coach Cowles believes. Tilden and Hunter would play in the doubles together, and Lott would aid Tilden in the singles. Chandler is the problem in the make-up of this year's team, but, if he can return to the form he displayed two years ago. Coach Cowles thinks that he will have no trouble in making the team. When questioned as to the chances of Hennessey, Van Ryan, Jones and Doeg, Coach Cowles shook his head, and said that all played a good game...
...appendicitis, returned to the top of the female troupe. Among the males youth assumed a predominance shocking to spry ancients. In the first ten Tilden, Francis T. Hunter, No. 2, and Manuel Alonso, one-time Spanish subject, No. 4, were the only veterans. Third place went to George M. Lott, Jr., Michigan undergraduate, the highest ranking ever bestowed upon the middle west. Notables conspicuous by absence from the lists owing to insufficient tennis activity in 1927 were William Johnston, for a dozen years in the first six; R. Norris Williams, potent defender of many a Davis Cup; Elizabeth Ryan, second...
...Francis Hunter, New Rochelle, N. Y., sly shotmakers, the honor of playing doubles for the U. S. against France in the approaching Davis Cup matches. They won early matches easily against unknowns, improving with practice. Their first ardent opposition came in the semi-finals against young George M. Lott Jr., Chicago; and young John Doeg, Santa Monica, Cal. The young men, prospective champions sages say, showed fight, forced the older men desperately, lost...
Spectators were sorry thus to see all the young men go down before all the old men. The day before, the young men had swept the French menace from the tournament, Hennessey and Williams defeating, unexpectedly, Jean Borotra and Rene Lacoste; Lott and Doeg defeating, also unexpectedly, Henri Cochet and Jacques Brugnon...
Twelve sets would be a long tennis match. Mrs. Charlotte Hosmer Chapin and Arnold W. Jones played the equivalent of twelve love sets (72 games) to defeat Mrs. William Endicott and George Lott in the finals for the Rhode Island State Championship. It was thought to be the longest tournament mixed doubles match on record. Scores...