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March 13, 1932

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BOROTRA AND LOTT GAIN IN TITLE PLAY; French Ace, Defending Cham- pion, Beats Hartford, 6-1, 6-0, as Net Tourney Opens. NINE U.S. FAVORITES WIN Shields, Wood and Mangin Are Among Seeded Players to Score in Straight Sets. BOROTRA AND LOTT GAIN IN TITLE PLAY

By Allison Danzig.by Allison Danzig

With the finest field to gather for the tournament in years, the national indoor tennis championship pot under way at the Seventh Regiment Armory, Park Avenue and Sixtysixth Street, yesterday with Jean Borotra of France in the role of defending titleholder.

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FINANCIAL EUROPE AND AMERICA.

By Unknown Author

Last week's reduction in the Bank of England's discount rate, from 5 per cent to 4, was one of the now numerous signs of returning financial composure and stability in Europe. Sometimes such changes in European "bank rates" have only remote significance for our own financial situation; but there are reasons for taking a different view on this occasion.

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Claims of 100 to Wendel Estate To Be Heard in Court Tomorrow; Asserted Heirs of Last of Family That Lived in Old Fifth Avenue Mansion Will Object to Probate of Will of Spinster -- Share in Wealth Is Sought by 1,100.

By Unknown Author

More than 100 persons will appear before Surrogate James A. Foley tomorrow morning or be represented by counsel in the filing of objections to the probate of the wilt of Ella Wendel, aged spinster, the last of five daughters of John Gottlieb Wendel, founder of the fortune, who lived and died in the old brick house at Fifth Avenue and Thirty-ninth Street.

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