Evening star., 1932-07-29
French Now Favored.

France an ONerWh9lmlnR la|CIllc 10 re-
tain the cup they won from the United
States in 1927. as Henri Cochet is ia
vored to win his two singles matches for
the three victories needed
Vines was not at home on the slow
clay courts and playing with the soft
French tennis ball, but 1t was the un-
expected brilliance of Borotras play
which was the deciding factor.
Vines won the toss and chose tc
serve. He sent his first ball into the
net and continued to play erratically
as the game went to deuce, then Boro-
tras advantage The Basque won as
Vines double faulted
Borotra served and began rushing the
net. Vines still was hitting wildly and
Borotra won from Is on straight run
of errors by the American youngSter.
Vines double fault gave BorOtra q
1870 lead in The third game, but the
American deuced the set, then aced
Eorotra for the advantage and hit a
smashing drive. which Jean knocked
out, to win his first game. Playing with
more assurance and more carefully thar
he started Vines then broke Jeans serv-
ice to tie the match at two games all
Breaks Vines Service Again.
The crowd roared as Borotra savec
the game point in the fifth by smash
ing a lob after a long rally and ther
won from deuce, breaking Vines Serv'
ice for the second time for a 80 lead
Borotra he'd his service as Vines errec
frequently and then again broke through
the Americans service for a So lead
Borotra had set point in the eightf
game, but doublefaulted. and Vine
arTsip n dolIpo
American youngster also saved hi.
service, but Borotra, making supreme
effort, ran out the next game from
40-30 TO take the hard-won set, "a
Borotra. playing marvelously undel
the stimulus Of friendly gallery broke
Vines service to take the opening
game of the second set.
Jean also won the next game on hi
service, bat Vines came back to hole
his own. winning from IS He coulc
not Withstand the pace and fire o
the Frenchmens game and dropped
the fourth from is to trail, one set K
three
Vines got his service under contro
in the fifth game and won at love, The
frst sweep Of the match
Borotra began firing at Vines back
took the next as Vines double-faulteC
three times and then went on to tax,
the eighth game from IS and the set
So.
Vines again served first in the thirt
set. but double -faulted twice and in at
tempting to follow his serves to the ne
was easily passed and lost the game.
Vines broke through Borotra to TAX
the next, but again dropped his servic
from deuce to trail 1-2 in games.
Here the American youngSter speedeG
up his game, leveled the match at Q.
and won the next from 80 on effective
powerful driving to lead in games TO
| the first time in the match. Main
tanning his pace, Vines broke through
to take a lead, but then dropped
his own service
| Vines came right back to break Bo
| rotra's service for a 5-3 lead. Borotra'
eXertions obviously were tiring him AM
he practically tossed away the fna
game from 30 for a 6-3 victory TO
! Vines.
BOrOtra Tires.
The players returned for the fourtl
| set with the fate Of the match seemin
| to rest on whether Rorotra could regain
his form of the first two sets agains
the powerful Vines. He seemed yer
, tired as he took the court.
Borotra served first and won from &c
Vines swept the next two games TO
2-1 lead, then unloosed- two viciou
| service aces to make the game coun
| 81. The American youngster strucl
a streak Of Wildness then and threw tn
next game away. Borotra again il
swift action. pressed his advantage an,
broke Vines service to level the mattel
| at Sail and then held his own for
4-3 lead.
Vines, still unperturbed. scored tw
| fine placements to take the next gam
| and square the set at A
Borotra firing fast, threw all hi
| energies into one final effort an
| smashed across his own service to TAX
a 5-4 lead, scoring the winning poin
on a sizzling cross court volley at tht
net, then broke Vines service to TAX
/ the set GA and the match three set
| to one The last point was a netteC
hall bV Vines