Earl Harry Cochell (born May 18, 1922) was an American tennis player, the only one barred for life by the United States Tennis Association. Cochell was ranked as high as No. 6 in the U.S. rankings before the 1951 U.S. National Championships (later the U.S. Open). In the fourth round match in that event against Gardnar Mulloy, Cochell, well known for a fiery temper and an intractably independent streak, became angry over a line call and tried to address the crowd by climbing up the chair umpire's ladder to take the microphone. Cochell was stopped from doing so and eventually lost the match to Mulloy, but afterwards, in a locker-room confrontation over the incident with tournament Referee S. Ellsworth Davenport, Cochell insulted Davenport with such abusive obscenity that, two days later, the