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...were left: Gregory Mangin, chunky, quick-footed champion, and Lester Stoefen, willowy 6 ft. 32 in. Californian having his first try at the national indoor competition. Stoefen blazed dazzling serves, made his backhand whine with deadly effect, won nine straight games. Mangin speeded up, caught and passed Stoefen. When he was within one point of winning the second set and tying the match, his serve broke the frame of Stoefen's racquet. But a footfault was called and he had to serve over. From that point on. Stoefen won his way through to become the new indoor champion. Score...
...Longwood. In the first set, young Frank Andrew Parker was erratic and his tall partner, Francis Xavier Shields, had to make most of the impossible gets, the titanic smashes that finally won, 13-11. Wily George Lott and willowy Lester Stoefen, smoothing out the soft spots in his game as the match wore on, concen- trated on Parker in the next two sets and won them both at 9-7. In the fourth set, Shields & Parker worked the score up to 3-all. Then Lott won his serve, Parker lost his, and Stoefen won his-for set match...
Encouraged to team together by Bernon S. Prentice, non-playing captain of this year's U. S. Davis Cup team, Lott & Stoefen proved one thing by their victory last week: that Chicago's hairy, hard-bitten George Martin Lott Jr. is the best doubles player in the U. S., if not in the world. Last week's doubles title was his fourth. He won in 1928 with John F. Hennessey, in 1929 and 1930 with John Hope Doeg. Saturnine, good-humored, Lott's doubles game is noteworthy for steadiness, tactical brilliance, unwillingness to be discouraged...
...more first class foreign players than any U. S. championship in years was not the only thing that gave last week's tournament at Brookline a special importance. Coming after the closest Davis Cup matches on record, it was a chance to try out new combinations, like Lott & Stoefen, Crawford & McGrath. Furthermore, it gave U. S. tennis followers their first brief glimpse of the player who has become indisputably, for this year at least, the world's No. 1. Last winter Jack Crawford won the Australian singles championship at Melbourne, beating Keith Gledhill in the final...
...Vines, Perry and Shields, three players who certainly belong in the world's first four but whose ratings in relation to each other experts have difficulty in deciding. Others-like Allison and Lott; Sidney Wood, who has slipped since winning at Wimbledon in 1931 but might come back; Stoefen, who is so impressive on the court that nothing he might do would be surprising-would be capable, on their best days, of beating any of the first four. Forest Hills usually turns up at least one dark horse. This year the tournament will have two prodigies. Parker and McGrath...