THE FIRST FLIGHT

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 234, 22 December 1927, Page 9

THE FIRST FLIGHT

SOME PERSONAL DETAILS SKETCHES OF CAREERS i Details of the prominent players be | fore the public eye have been culled b; ■'American Lawn Tennis.” Here the;

Manuel Alonso, born November 12, 1895, in San Sebastian, Spain: residence, Philadelphia, Pa.: vocation, civil engineer; height sft 9in, weight 1461 b. began playing tennis in 1911. First tournament, 1911. Racquet. Bancroft, “Winner.”

Jean Borotra, born August 13, IS9B, in Biarritz, France; residence, Paris, France; vocation, civil engineer; height sft 9it in, weight 1551 b. Began playing tennis in 1919. First tournament, November, 1919, at Tennis Club de Paris. Racquet, Williams's “Driva.” Jacques Brugnon, born May 11, 1 S9s', in Paris, France; residence, Paris; vocation, salesman; ' height sft 6Mn, weight 1391 b. Began playing tennis in 1909. First tournament. 1911. Racquet, Williams’s “Driva.” He nri Cochet, born March, 1902, in Lyons, France; residence Lyons, France; vocation, merchant; height sft 6in, weight 1451 b. Began playing tennis in 1919. First tournament in 1919. Racquet, Mass and Co. John Hope-Doeg, born December 7, 1908, in Mexico; residence, Santa Monica, California: vocation, student: height 6ft lin, weight 1721 b. Began playing tennis in 1918. Racquet, Spalding Top-Flitc. John Francis Hennessey, born October 27, 1900, in Indianapolis,. Jnd.; residence, Indianapolis; vocation, life insurance; height 6ft, weight 1551 b. Began playing tennis in 1910. First tournament, Indiana State, 1913. Racquet, Spalding H. and A. Francis Townsend Hunter, born June 28, 1894, in New York City; residence, New Rochelle, N.Y.: vocation, publisher; height sft l.tin, weight .1801 b. Began playing tennis in 1905. First tournament, 1911. Racquet, George Agutter. William M. Johnston, born November 2, 1894, in San Francisco, California; residence, San Francisco, California; vocation, broker; height sft weight 12 01b. Began playing tennis in 1905. First tournament, 1908. Racquet. Bancroft “New Winner.”

Jean Rene Lacoste, born July 2, 1904, in Paris, France; residence, Seine, France: vocation, manufacturer; height sft 7.8 in, weight 15S*lb. Began playing tennis in 1919. First tournament, 1920, championship of the Stade Francais.

Racquet, Darsonval. Rene Lacoste George Martin Lott, jun., born October 16. 1906, in Springfield, 111; residence, Chicago, 111.; vocation, student; height 6ft, weight 1531 b. Began playplaying tennis in 1900. First tourna--1919. Racquet, Wright and Ditson Gold Star. William Tatem Tilden, IT, born February 10, 1893, in Germantown, Pa.; residence, Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa.; vocation, litterateur and actor: height Oft lin, weight 1681 b. Began plaving tennis in 1900. First tournament, 1901. Racquet, Spalding TopFlite. Richard Norris Williams, 11., born January 29, 1891, in Geneva, Switzerland; residence, Bryn Mawr, Pa.; vocation, statistician; height sft lliin, weight 1501 b. Began playing tennis in 1903. Racquet, -Wright and Ditson Gold Star.

NOTABLE CHAMPION MR. HARRY A. PARKER One of the most notable tennis champions New Zealand has produced, Mr. Harry A, Parker, arrived by the Aorangi, and is making a short tour of the Dominion before he leaves for England. With Geof. Ollivier he holds the record of having collected the New Zealand singles’ title six times, the dates being 1895, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1905 and 1907. DAVIS CUP PLAYER He was a member of the New Zealand team which defeated New South Wales in 1596, and he captained the Dominion side which did the same thing in 1904. Going to Australia he won the championships of every state and played for New South Wales many times in inter-State matches. In England he won provincial titles and got into the final of the Wimbledon doubles. With L. O. S. Poidevin he won the doubles championship of Europe at Hamburg, and in 1905 and 1908 he represented Australia and New Zealand in the Davis Cup matches. Born in Christchurch in 1873, he learnt his first tennis at the Wanganui Collegiate School, where he was coached by the late the Rev. J. M. Marshall, himself a New Zealand champion. It is now 14 years since Mr. Parker played big tennis. His record is such an amazing one that there is little probability of it ever being equalled. He is now a resident of Sydney.