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Late in November, the team will begin to practise in the Armory, training for the city tournament which starts early in January. Still later in the year, the University team will play the fours from Yale, Norwich, Providence, and West Point in an indoor polo series...
...entry list for this year's University tennis tournament broke all previous records for the annual event when the list closed yesterday with 185 men entered. In the first day's play yesterday, the ten seeded players came through without a mishap and Coach Harry Cowles expects to glean some excellent material from this array of racquet candidates. Among the most promising of these is M.T. Hill '30, holder of last year's national junior doubles championship. Hill graduated from Loomis School last spring and has been widely heralded as one of the best junior prospects in years...
Only one of last year's two finalists is appearing in this year's tournament. He is J.F.W. Whitbeck '27, captain of this year's tennis team. Alden Briggs, G.B., the other finalist failed to return to the University this year. Frank Donovan 1L., former Notre Dame star, and a seeded player, like Hill has never appeared in a University tennis event previous to this year...
Coach Cowles announced yesterday the seeded players in this year's tournament. They are ranked in the following order...
Before the national doubles tournament started last week in Brookline, Mass., most observers were ready to agree that the two best doubles players in the U. S. were probably a pair of Frenchmen. There was Henri ("Ricochet") Cochet and his excitable partner, Jacques Brugnon, champions of France and winners last June at Wimbledon. There was Jean René Lacoste and Jean Borotra, the "Bounding Basque." None of the U. S. players looked very strong; William T. Tilden, of course-but then Tilden never takes doubles literally. He prefers to play with some youth who, overcome at the honor of being...