Sport: National Doubles

Up to the semifinals, the national doubles tennis championship at Brookline, Mass, last week was played like most tournaments, strictly according to form. There was nothing that looked like an important upset until the quarter-finals when Berkeley Bell & Gregory Mangin had Henri Cochet and his 18-year-old partner, Marcel Bernard, two sets down and 2-0 in the third. Bernard went over to speak to Cochet. He seemed to be apologizing for his errors, promising to do better. Cochet smiled and the Frenchmen, piling up points as Bell & Mangin tired, won in five...

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