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...Wilmer Allison of Austin, Tex., and John Van Ryn of Philadelphia: the U. S. tennis doubles championship; by beating Berkeley Bell & Gregory Mangin 6-4. 8-6. 6-3 in the finals at Chestnut Hill, Mass. ¶ Kaye Don, in Miss England II: the first heat of the Harmsworth Trophy Race, for speedboats, at 89:913 m.p.h.; beating famed Gar Wood of Detroit, in Miss America IX, and his brother George in Miss America VIII; at Detroit. In the second heat, watched by a crowd of 500,000 and won by George Wood, both Kaye Don and Gar Wood were...
...enough for the completion of one of the most surprising rounds on record in a national tournament, Francis Xavier Shields of New York and Sidney B. Wood Jr. beat Doeg & Lott, 14-16, 6-2, 6-4, 7-5. The other team in the semi-finals was Gregory Mangin of Newark and Berkeley Bell of Dallas...
...wonder of U. S. tennis. When Johnston retired, Richards turned professional, Williams grew too veteran to be brilliant for more than a day at a time, there appeared on the scene a great second-growth of younger players. These-George Lott, John Van Ryn, Berkeley Bell, Gregory Mangin, Wilmer Allison, John Hennessey; John Doeg-were the ones who caused the difficulty. All were young collegians, and they looked as much alike as so many agitated and disobliging Chinamen. One or two of them, it was first supposed, would emerge from the rest and become champions, but this never seemed...
...other two, Shields and Wood, together with Henri Cochet; John Van Ryn; Jean Borotra, who airplaned back to Paris for business between matches; Bunny Austin, balloon-trousered British Davis Cup player; George Lyttleton Rogers, a big Irishman with a hooked nose; Jiro Satoh, the champion of Japan; and Gregory Mangin and George Lott were last week playing in the greatest single event of the tennis year, "the world's championship"at Wimbledon...
Cochet, drawn and listless after an attack of influenza, lost his first match in straight sets to an obscure English player named Nigel Sharpe; Mangin lost to Rogers and Rogers lost to Satoh; George Lott was beaten by Harold Lee. Shields, who had never played at Wimbledon be- fore, and Wood were the gallery's favorites. Wood beat the champion of Spain, Eduard Maier, in a straight-set match watched by onetime King Alfonso. Shields, whose resemblance to Wimbledon's favorite William Tatem Tilden II and the fact that he was the first seeded U. S. player, made...