Though one brandy-drinking Frenchwoman might be able to beat, after a gallant defense, an American champion, U. S. tennis-followers smiled softly over their lemonades, ginger ales and ice waters when they thought of the debacle that awaited the colors of France in the national indoor tournament about to be played in the Seventh Regiment Armory, Manhattan. Leaping Jean Borotra, heavy-lidded Réné LaCoste, and brisk Jaques Brugnon, nicknamed by an unoriginal pressman "The Three Musketeers," would face, if they came through the early rounds, William T. Tilden, Vincent Richards and Francis T. Hunter....
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