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Long-legged Henry Ellsworth Vines Jr., last year's No. 1 U. S. tennist, last week ended a disastrous year of amateur tennis. Last June, just before he lost his Wimbledon title, Professional William T. Tilden offered him a $100,000 contract if he won. Made dizzy by having lost so much money. Vines talked about it, brought on an investigation by the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association which finally cleared him of having done more than think about turning professional...
...lanky Henry Ellsworth Vines Jr., last year's No. 1 U. S. tennist, this year has been anything but happy. Beaten at Wimbledon, beaten in Davis Cup play, beaten out of his U. S. championship at Forest Hills, beaten in the Pacific Southwest tournament at Los Angeles last fortnight, he talked so carelessly about turning professional that the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association felt called upon to investigate. He was cleared, but last week he had fresh troubles when the Associated Press held him up to view as a turnquote...
...Paris, famed Henri Cochet, No. 1 tennist of France, finally stopped denying rumors, increasingly persistent for the last two years, that he would turn professional. His plans: a series of matches, with Martin Plaa for partner, v. William Tilden II and Bruce Barnes, late this month...
...when his family moved to Sidney. In 1924, aged 16, he played in his first tournament. Two years later, in the Australian Junior Championship, he beat a member of the Australian Davis Cup team, on which he played in 1928. In 1930 he married Marjorie Cox, famed Australian girl tennist, with whom he had won most of Australia's mixed doubles titles. Since 1931 his game has improved steadily but so slowly that by 1933 even England's Queen Mary, who never misses a Wimbledon tournament, had the impression that it had taken phenomenally long. After he beat...
Francis Xavier Shields, No. 5 ranking U. S. tennist: a match from National Champion Ellsworth Vines, 6-2, 6-4, 6-4, in the semi-finals of the Newport (R. I.) Casino Cup tournament, which Shields then won from Wilmer Allison, No. 2 in the rankings...