Sport: National Doubles

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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 which he has not held for three years. It turned out to be one of those see-saw matches that make tennis doubles the finest sport in the world to watch. Tilden did most of the work for his side until Lott & Doeg broke through his serve in the first game of the fifth set. Tilden's long shape seemed to grow hollower after that. When he scored, he regained a momentary spryness, but when he erred his bad hip hurt him, and he rested on his racquet between shots. Lott & Doeg ran out the match, 3—6, 6—3, 6—2, 9—n, 6—2. In the finals they ran through Allison & Van Ryn for two sets. It looked like no match at all until the Wimbledon champions broke through Doeg's service in the tenth game to win the third set. Like new men, Allison & Van Ryn came out after the rest period and took the fourth set after 28 terrific games. By all accepted tennis psychology that should have meant the end of Doeg & Lott, but they stopped the rush. They felt that Allison was weakening and played for him until he cracked in the seventh game of the last set. Lott & Doeg went on to take the match, keep the title. Score: 8—6, 6—3, 4—6, 13—15, 6—4.