TENNIS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 53, Issue 273, 30 August 1933, Page 6

TENNIS.

AMERICAN NATIONAL DOtS&ES

AUSTRALIANS' GOOD GAME

(United Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 9.5 a.m.) iNEW YOKiv, August 29.

G. M. Lott and R. L. Stoeffen defeated A. Quist and D. P. Tumbull in the semi-finals of the men's national doubles at Chestnut Hill 6-4,'3-6, 7-0, 2-8, 11-9. The match, which iiad been adjourned yesterday owing to bad light, was resumed in brilliant sunshine. The weather, however, was pleasantly cool following heavy rain at night. The games alternated with the ser.vice until a break in Stoeffen's deliverjin the eighth, due principally to Lott's* errors, gave the Australians a 5-3, lead. They tuen.took the set with a love game on Quist's service. The games again alternated with the service in tno third set, until tne twelfth, when tlie Americans standing 6-5, broke through Turnbuli's service, chiefly on Quist's short drives, to tak» the set, 'The Australians started the fourth set auspiciously with a 2-0 lead. They went lniu a. position 5-2 by accounting for Stoelfen's service in the seventh, the latter outing the final point and angrily throwing his racket into the air over his own error. Turnbull clinched the set with the next game on his service. Roth teams played carefully in the finai set. The Americans took a 4-2 iffrtl out the Australians were not yet beaten, evening the score at 4-4. They were on the winning end of every forecourt volleying rally. The teams were now on a grim fighting edge and the games went o-o, &S, 7-7, some of the low skimming shots that both teams made to win points causing demonstrations of nleasure from the gallery. The match almost reached an anti-climax in the sixteenth game, the Americans having won., the fifteenth. Turnbull, after standing 3-0 on his service, had the game deuced when the sixth point, which was obviously out, was called good by the linesman. The Australians, however, won the game 5-3. The struggle continued unwaveringly through 9-0, then the end itself came as a veritable anti-climax. The Americans won the nineteenth game 4-1. The Australians seemed certain of evening the score to 10-10, when on Turnbuli's service they stood 3-1, but, they lost the next shot on placement. They then missed two shots because the ball was driven between them, and neither tried to get it. Turnbull drove the final easy return into the net. He signalled his disappointment by firing the ball into the grandstand, but then patted Quist on the back as both congratulated the victors in the hardest-fought contest of the tournament to date.

Lett, who is regarded as one of the greatest doubles players, had a stupendous task in holding up Stoeffen, who was alternately erratic and brilliant as Lott carried the burden of the Australians' unrelenting attack.

In the semi-finals of the mixed doubles, Miss E. Ryan and H. E. Vines C United States) defeated Miss D. E. Round and F. J. Perry (England, 6-2, 6-4; Miss Sarah Palfrey and G. M. Lott (United States) defeatad Miss M. 0. Scriven (England) and J. B. Crawford (Australia) 10-8, 6-3. Some of the fastest tennis of the tournament developed in the latter match. The first set was closely contested on even terms, the ladies' service almost always failing, but both doing yeoman work at the net, gaining ground with angled, untouchable ground shots. Crawford's inability to hold his service lost the game and produced a break that terminated the set in the Americans' favour. After the Americans had stood 4-1 in the second set,, the British players made a brief bid for power by winning the next two games, hut the former were not to be

denied, taking the < final two games handily. UNITED STATES TOURNAMENT THE FIRST SEEDED PLAYERS (Received This Day, 9.15 a.m.) NEW YORK, August 29. H. E. Vines and J. B. Crawford (Australia) seeded first in the domestic and foreighlists respectively to-day for the United States tennis championship tdurnament that begins on Saturday at Forest Hills. F. X,, Shields seeded second to Vines and F. J. Perry (England) second to Crawford.