Crowd Smaller Than For Their First Tour Los Angeles, Jan. 11.
Ellsworth Vines, former top rankimg American tennis player, opened the second annual professional tour of the United States to-day with a brilliant victory over his bitter rival, Fred Perry, until October, 1936, amateur world champion, in five gruelling sets.
The lanky American was forced to rally after trailing by two sets to one. He spurted in grand style, revealing crisp strokes to emerge victorious By scores of 4-6, 13-11, 8-10, 6-2 and 64.
Only 9,000 spectators saw the match as compared with the crowd of over 17,000 which flocked to Madison Square Garden in New York on January 6, 1987 to see two of the greatest tennis players of all time clash for the first time.—United Press.
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