Evening star., 1932-09-11
RULES NET WORLD
AS i. S. CHAMPION
Crushes Frenchman, Great
est Rival, With Fiery Game.
All Counts 6 to q.
BY GAYLE TALBOT,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

TOREST HILLS, N. Y, Sep
r. tember 10.-Ellsworth Vines,
L 1r., a tennis genius possibly
without parallel, today won
the national and unofficial world
championships and an amazing
victory over Henri Cochet of
France, "a, "a, Ga.
With 14,5OO wildly cheering fans
looking on, the 20-year-old wonder
from Pasadena met his foremost
rival for world horors and, play
Ing with cold fury, literally
crushed him under an avalanche
OF cannon ball serves and fiery
placements.
For an hour and five minutes Vines
ran the little Frenchman ragged
pounded him from the backline. closed
In to haraSS him with soaring volleys.
and, withal, gave him one of the worst
DeatlngS Cochet has received since he
became world tennis figure a decade
ago. The "ballboy from Lyons" virtu-
ely was outclassed.
lONLY one factor rose to mar Vines
~ triumph. Cochet, to reach the
final, had been forced a few hours
earlier to play and win hard set from
Wilmer Allison of Austin, TEX. Their
semi-f1nal match had been interrupted
the previous night by darkness after
each had won two sets, and Cochet
had to play full OUT to take the final
set today, rs.
But If the famous Frenchman had
| been given weeks rest, it is doubtful
whether he could have fought back the
| fireball he encountered in the final.
Vines, known to have resented dis
| paraging statements that followed upon
his triumph over Cochet in the Davis
Cup challenge round at Paris in July,
| when he rallied to win after dropping
the first two sets, obviously was out to
smash his rival in such a manner there
could be no doubt of his superiority
Where the previous day, in stumbling
through to a semi-final victory over
Clifford Sutter, Vines had played rag
ged tennis, he came back to play prob
ably the greatest three sets of his
career today.
IRON the start his service ragged into
L the baffied Cochet, either aceing
the French star or forcing him to
hit out of bounds. For three sets he
sent his fore and back hand drives siz-
zling down the sidelines with almost
unerring accuracy, running Cochet back
and forth When he needed a point
badly, he charged into the net behind
one of his deep drives and smashed
Cochet's weak returns.
The final point of the second set was
a service ace that knocked chalk foot
high and then hit Cochet on the belt
line. He could not even dodge it. Rub
bing his middle, he told linesman,
ruefully:
He hits the hardest ball I've ever
seen. Not even Tilden could do that
to me-"
A SUMMARY of he three sets dis
"A closed that Vines scored six service
aces to none for Cochet, closing
both the second and third sets with
them. He piled up 81 placements to
10 for the Frenchman, who made only
four in the first and second sets. In
an earlier match against Johnny Van
Ryn, Cochet had shot 81 placements in
a single set.
Otherwise the former world tennis
master held his own. He made only %
outs to 26 for Vines, 35 nets to A for
Vines and committed two double faults
against the Americans four.
In winning his second national title
before reaching 81. Vines on successive
days defeated Gabriel Lavine, Philadel-
phia, 81, 60, 8-10, IS; Keith
Gledhill, 6-1, 6-3, 6-1; Lester Stoe-
fen, 6-3, rs, Ga; Clifford Sutter,
E6, 80, 12-10, 10-8, 6-1, and
finally Cochet.