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In Detroit last week the young, sanguine U. S. tennis team won the American zone Davis Cup preliminaries by taking five matches from some torpid Cubans (Ricardo Morales, Herman Uppman, Gustavo Vollmer). The youngsters--Wilmer Allison, John Hennessey, George Lott, John Van Ryn--then sailed for England, there to team with William Tatem Tilden II and Francis T. Hunter. This U. S. sextet will play the winner of the English-Italian European zone finals for the privilege of meeting France, possessor of the Davis Cup.

In France. In the Roland Garros Stadium courts near Paris the international hard court championships were concluded last week.

Helen Wills and plump Francis Hunter lost, as they did last year, the mixed doubles, to scampering Henri Cochet of France and Eileen Bennett of England (6--3, 6--2). Told that future English tournaments might prohibit her barelegged play, Miss Wills observed icily: "I did not discard stockings as a fad. I have done it to increase my speed." Her speed won the women's singles again. She trounced Eileen Bennett (6--2, 7--5) and Mme. Rene Mathieu, No. 1 Frenchwoman (6--3, 6--4).

In the men's singles Jean Rene Lacoste of France beat Tilden; Jean Borotra of France beat Hunter; Borotra, surprisingly, beat Cochet, but lost to the imperturbable, saturnine, inexorable Lacoste in the finals.