The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-06
To-day's Sport
 Parade
By HENRY McLEMORE

United Press Staff Correspondeht)
 New York, Sept 6-OP)- Think of the smoothest things you can-honey pouring out of Jug' a kittens wrist.
 Then think of the most effort less things you can-the swing Of a clock pendulum, the flight Of gull, cat walking across a Per sian rug.
 That seems a 'ell of way to de- scribe a tennis player, but I'm tell ing you that Henri Cochet's game has all the smoothness, all the easy rhythm of the items mentioned. Appearing on the courts at Forest Hills as he did yesterday-that IS, after several Americans with their typical wham bang slam games had performed-only tended to &C., centuate the delicacy, the beauty, if you will. of the little French mans touch.
 Never wasted motion. Never an unnecessary step. At the base line he plays the ball off his rore- arm and backhand with such hu- ent grace, that you'd swear ne could keep it up all day without miss. But it's at the net and Tn the shortcourt where the firing IS hottest that the man is so per- feet he takes your breath.
 His opponent lashes out with passing shot-a drive that whistles down the alley a mile minute, barely clearing the net. With movement so quick as to be al- most inperceptible Cochet is there. Out goes his racket, the ball IS speared, and down it drops, just beyond his foes reach.
 The next time it's a half volley, just about the most difficult or all shots to execute perfectly. Tho ball huns down toward his knees. With a graceful dip Cochet, still on the tops of his toes, catches 1t beautifully and arches it back. His accuracy is so great as to make you believe he must catch the ball on his Racket, juggle it there a mo- ment, and then toss it back.
 The New York tennis customers got their first glimpse of Cochet yesterday, where he played Jake Hess, the Texas undergraduate in second round match. Unlike most youngsters thrown against such a reputation as is the Frenchman's Hess played his game to the hilt. If he was worried, nervous or awed, he didn't show it. But he might just as we'll have been play ing a machine. True, he won II games, but Hess will tell you that most of them were gifts; that when Cochet wanted point or game he took it. On more than one oc- casion he allowed Jake to run up a 40-15 lead and then came from behind with four straight points. Asked after the match what he thoughtof Cochet's game, Hess had this to say: .
 How does anybody ever beat the man? He makes you do all the work. I ran myself to death, and he didn't run more than once or twice during the whole thing. It didn't matter where l put the ball -there he was, ready to slap 1t back. And that service of his! It looks like nothing, but it's got more spins and twists than hula dancer. You know he reminds me of one of these old baseball pitch CTS who throw a nothing ball, but go on winning. But his service isn't really what counts-its the way he backs it up. And when he comes to the net! Well, I just shut my eyes and slammed the ball. found that worked better than try ing to aim it past him."
 It's a shame that several of our Davis cup teams didn't do the same thing. P. s. Winner Allison says he has figured out a way to beat Cochet. It's got something to do with his backhand. Wilmer spent two hours drawing diagrams of his
 plan on the way home from France.