LAWN TENNIS

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20955, 8 September 1933, Page 13

LAWN TENNIS

■ AMERICAN SINGLES s' CHAMPIONSHIP 1 ' TURNBULL BEATEN BY S SHIELDS i 1 THREE AUSTRALIANS SURVIVE THIRD ROUND 1 i ' (UNITED PRKAS ASSOCIATION - t'V EI.ECTKIC I TEI.EGHArH -COI'VBLGIIT.) NEW YORK, September (i. » In the national lawn tennis singles I championship at Forest. Hills, results > to-day were:— * Second Round. : H. E. Vines (U.S.A.) bent E. R. Avory (England), 6-3, 7-5, (i-t. \ Third Round. F. J. Perry (England) beat Marco Hecht (NevV YorW, 6-1, C-4, 6-4. Wilmer Allison , (U.S.A.) beat John Van Ryn (U.S.A.), 4-6, 4-6, 6-1, 6-4, 6-2. Ryosuke Nuiioi (Japan) beat G. M. Lott (U.S.A.), 5-7, 1-6, 6-1, 6-1, 6-2. J. B. Crawford (Australia) beat Jack Tidball (California), 6-2, 6-3, 6-2, 7-5. Francis X. Shields (U.S.A.) beat D. P. Turnbull <Australia). 6-4, 8-6, 6-3. Vivian McGrath (Australia), beat S. E. Davenport (Forest Hills), 6-2, 6-4, , 6-2. | Adrian Quist (Australia) bent : Eugene McAulifl'c (Yonkers), 6-2, 6-1, 8-6. Keith Gledhill (U.S.A.) beat Frankie Parker (Milwaukee), 4-6, 6-3, 11,9, 6-3. Crawford met unexpected resistance 1 from Tidball, the American inter-col-legiate champion. After breezing through the first set with an almost errorless score, Crawford lost the long-drawn-out second set through repeated net errors from his opponent's hard driving game. The only games Crawford lost in the first set were the fifth and sixth. Tidball seemed a little awed by his opponent. Crawford in the second set was first careless, then -unable to control his returns of Tjdball's fast deliveries. Tidball won the first game of the second set, then the fourth, fifth, and sixth on Crawford's net errors and his own fast placements. Crawford won the seventh and eighth, and the games then see-sa\ved until they tied on the twelfth. Tidball took his own service in the thirteenth. Then, after two out errors and a double fault by Crawford Tidball broke his opponent's service and won the game and set with a fast placement. The third set was a repetition of the first, Crawford losing but two games with the minimum of errors throughout. In the fourth set. after many spectators had left the stands, thinking the match was virtually over, Tidball made a sensational rally, winning the first, second, third, fifth, and seventh games, to take a five-two lead, Crawford's play being .spotty. A fifth set seemed inevitable until the start of the eighth game, in which Crawford won his own service, and then clicked off five straight games with brilliant tennis. Tidball was completely unable to handle Crawford's returns. Shields v. Turnbull. In the Shields-Turnbull game eacli , hammered the other with cannonball i services, and neither was able to return the other's until the fourth game, when, although Turnbull made a service ace, he netted and outed Shields's j defensive returns to lose his service. This gave the American a 3-2 lead, j which the Australian did not long ! allow. He solyed Shields's delivery ! and accounted for it with long drives, and evened the score at 4-4: but Shields was now unbeatable, and won the next two games to love. Turnbull went into a 3-1 lead in the second set, by accounting for Shields's service in the fourth game with some fine angled shots. He was within a point of breaking the American's service in the sixth game, but the latter fought a hard deuce game at the net to win. The Australian, however, was unable to maintain the pace, and netted his way through the next two games, which evened the score at 4-4, The men then fought for the advantage until the thirteenth game, when Shields broke Turnbull's service with magnificent placements, and went into a lead that spelled set in the next game, on his own service. In the third set, Shields having staved oil the threat in the second set, now proceeded to establish his victory as quickly as possible. He literally drove Turnbull off the court with the force of his stroking. The American secured a 3-1 lead, which he later improved to 4-2 ana 5-3, and then ran out set on Turnbull's service. Quist v. McAuliffe. McAuliffe, playing against Quist, proved threatening only in the third set, when he quickly went to a 2-1 lead on a break in Quist's service. The American improved this gradually to 5-4. He was set point several times, only to have Quist pull the game out at 8-6 in points xo even the score at 5-5. Games then alternated with service until McAuliffe dropped his in the thirteenth, which advantage the Australian improved by winning the fourteenth on his own service, although McAuliffe succeeded in deucin»' it oncc. McGrath v. Davenport. McGrath's opponent, Davenport, the young son of the president of the West Side Tennis Club, was incapacitated by a sprained arm, which softened his service and made his returns defective. Whatever competition ne offered occurred in the second set when, breaking through the Austrahans serv ice in the flrst he dropped the next four, taking only four points, yet he came back to even the score by winning the following three games with tricky chop shots that failed to rise. However, he lapsed badly in the final two games, losing the runth to love and netting almost every shot in the tenth.