Tennis

At Wimbledon last week, every one wondered who would play Henri Cochet of France in the final. They stopped wondering in the second round when Cochet, playing a sleepy match against an unseeded Englishman named Ian G. Collins, lost i 2-6, 6-8, 6-0, 3-6.

Sidney B. Wood, to 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 him in the London championship the week before.

In Wimbledon week, which lasts a fortnight all the British championships are played at the same time. In the women's singles Helen Wills reached the semi-finals comfortably, bracketted against Mme Rene Mathieu of France who had put out Betty Nuthall. Wilmer Allison and John Van Ryn. U. S. Davis Cup doubles team, beat Dr. S. C. Gregory and Ian Collins to reach the quarter finals.

At Haverford, Pa., the best player of the best college tennis team in the U. S. had a fine chance to win the U. S. Intercollegiate championship. He, Bryan ("Bitsy") Grant, No. 1 on the North Carolina team which this year and last won 45 matches in a row against Yale, Harvard, Navy, Army, N. Y. U., et al, played the defending champion, Keith Gledhill ot Stanford, in the semifinal. For two sets Grant kept Gledhill away from the net by passing him every time he tried to come up He let Gledhill win the third set but he was trying hard to win the fourth when Gledhill had set-point and lost it three times Finally Grant won the game to make it 6-all, ran out the next two games for the set that settled Gledhill, 6-3, 6-2, 1-6 8-6 It was the best match of tournament and it gave Grant his chance to win the title. Grant failed to take it Next day in the final he lost to Clifford Sutter of Tulane, 1930 champion, 7-5, 6-2, 6-4.

In Chicago, 16-year-old Frank Parker of Milwaukee played George Lott Jr., second-ranking player in the U. S., in the third round of the Western championship. Parker playing in short trousers and barelegged, won 6-3, 2-6, 6-4, 3~6 6-3. . In the semi-finals he beat Tilden's onetime protege Junior Coen 6-4, 6-1 5-7,6-2. In the final his opponent was huge (6 11 6 in.) Lester Stoeffen of Los Angeles. Parker won 2-6, 7-5, 6-4, 6-2.

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