The Archive · 1938

Vines Beats Perry

AGAIN

Tennis Lead Stretched to Two Matches "Stockton, Feb. 2.

Ellsworth Vines stretched his lead against Fred Perry in their current dual professional tennis championship series to two matches to-day here when he won in three sets, 2-6, 6-2 and 8-6, The Californian now leads by seven matches to five, jumping into the lead the other day at San Jose.

Both former amateur world champions and among the world's greatest all-time players, Vines and Perry waged a bitter battle for supremacy last year, when the Englishman first turned professional. After a six-month barnstorming series, the American won, 32 matches to 29.—United Press,

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