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...Mangin 7. Marble...
...semifinals, the national doubles tennis championship at Brookline, Mass, last week was played like most tournaments, strictly according to form. There was nothing that looked like an important upset until the quarter-finals when Berkeley Bell & Gregory Mangin had Henri Cochet and his 18-year-old partner, Marcel Bernard, two sets down and 2-0 in the third. Bernard went over to speak to Cochet. He seemed to be apologizing for his errors, promising to do better. Cochet smiled and the Frenchmen, piling up points as Bell & Mangin tired, won in five sets...
...whom Shields defaulted in last year's final, and Ellsworth Vines were the two the London galleries wanted most to see. Wood, who did poorly on last year's Davis Cup team, was playing brilliant tennis again. He had three easy matches before he played Gregory Mangin, U. S. Indoor champion, and won in straight sets to reach the quarter finals. U. S. Champion Vines, whose game this year has veered from merely erratic to downright bad, wobbled through his early matches but won them all: one against Harry Hopman of Australia who had beaten...
That left the tournament open to the best field of the last three years. Tall Frank Shields, now 21 and heavier than a year ago, was the favorite. George Lott Jr. of Chicago was playing badly. The dark horse of the tournament was Gregory Mangin of Newark, a graceful player but one without abundant stamina, who has been playing tournament and Davis Cup tennis for six years without winning any sort of national championship. In the final, between Shields and Mangin, Shields seemed to have the match well in hand with a lead of 5-2 in the first...
George Lott and John Van Ryn beat Bell & Mangin for the doubles title...