Career
Cooke was ranked in Top 10 in the United States in 1938 (ranked Number 7), 1939 (Number 6), 1940 (Number 9), and 1945 (Number 4), whilst reaching as high as World Number. 8 in Gordon Lowe"s amateur rankings for 1939. Cooke reached the semifinals of the French Championships in 1939 and the United States. National Championships in 1945 (and the quarterfinals of the latter in 1940 and 1943).
At the Cincinnati Masters, he reached both the singles and the doubles final in 1945.
He lost the singles final to future International Tennis Hall of Fame enshrinee Bill Talbert, and the doubles final to Talbert and Hal Surface. He held the Pacific Northwest Sectional singles ranking of Number.
2 in 1935, and Number. 1 in 1936, and was ranked Number.
1 in doubles in the Pacific Northwest (with Don Lewis) in 1935. After he retired from tournament play, he was the head tennis professional at Sunningdale Country Club in Scarsdale, New York from 1961–1981.