People: Court Bulletin

The arguments, predictions, plans and surprises which precede the big tennis tournaments of the season—starting with the British championship at Wimbledon June 22—began last week in Paris where Jean Borotra was engaged in winning the French hard court singles championship; at South Orange, N. J., where U. S. Champion John Hope Doeg was winning an annual invitation tournament; and at Washington, D. C., where a young U. S. Davis Cup team (Sidney Wood, Francis Shields, Clifford Sutter) speedily eliminated Argentina 3 to 0 from the final round of the American Zone Davis Cup matches. In the quarter-finals of the Paris tournament were three Frenchmen, an Italian, a Japanese, an Irishman and two Americans. One American, George Lott, who had already won the doubles championship with John Van Ryn, lost to the Irishman, George Patrick Hughes, in a match characterized by Lott’s acerbity to his opponent and to a lady line-official at whose decisions he shouted “No!” Jean Borotra later eliminated the Japanese, Jire Sato, but only after Sato had won the second and third sets. Spectators who watched Betty Nuthall reaching the finals of French woman’s hard court championship agreed that she was playing much better than last year and might give Helen Wills Moody a good match if Mrs. Moody plays her this year. But in the finals, a demure pudgy legged German girl, Cecilie Aussem, surprised everyone by beating Betty Nuthall 8-6, 6-1.