Sport: National Doubles

George Lott of Chicago and John Doeg of Santa Monica were seeded No. i—the defending champions—when the national doubles tennis tournament started last week at the Longwood Cricket Club at Chestnut Hill, Mass. Form ran true, and the first four seeded teams got into the semifinals. John Van Ryn and Wilmer Allison put out Berkeley Bell and Gregory Mangin, 6—8, 6—4, 6—4, 6—3. Then Doeg & Lott had to beat Tilden & Hunter, knowing that Hunter was playing much better and that Tilden, though he had a bad charley-horse in his hip, wanted moje than anything to get back this title...

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