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Show Perfect Tennis Player Picked By Ellsworth Vines Ellsworth Vines, Darnstorming opponent to the professionally! perennial Bill Tilden, picks a perfect tennis player" in the August issue of Esquire and names him as America's only hope in forthcoming international tournament tour-nament play. "Returning from Europe last summer after the English had beaten us to the Davis cup," writes Vines,, "I was asked what I thought would be the wisest future course for the United States. My first impulse was to answer whimsically that America ought to seek out two perfect players, without a weakness between be-tween them, and in that way guarantee a Davis cup victory. I checked myself before voicing the idea. "Since then . I have pondered over the difficultres of Davis cup campaigns, and the more I .weigh them the more I am convinced that the whim I had a year ago is the only solution that will satisfy sat-isfy everyone. Committee meetJ ings, strategic blunders, human failings and officiousness com-i plicate every quest for the Davis cup. The perfect tennis player is the only way out. ' "Unfortunately, he has not yet been discovered. From my own expenences I have a definite picture pic-ture of what that perfect tennis player would be like. He would be a compound of the best shots of the best players of the game. "The ideal Davis cup team member would have the backhand of my friend, Bill Tilden, the left-handed left-handed service of John Hope Doeg, the maddening lob of George Lott, the overhead smash of Jean Borata, the volleying game of Henri Cochet, plus the skill of Vinnie Richards on Slow, shoe-top volleys, and, what very few peo- ' pie realize, the forehand shot production pro-duction of Fred Perry. |