OVERSEAS SPORT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 202, 28 August 1933, Page 7

OVERSEAS SPORT.

MRS. MOODY BEATEN. Retires in U.S.A. Final When Helen Jacobs Leading. QUIST AND TTJRNBULL SHINE. (United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright) NEW YORK, August 27. In tlie quarter-finals of the doubles in the United States national lawn tennis championships at Brooklines on Saturday, Ellsworth Vines and Keith Gledhill defeated Jack Tidball and Gene Mako (Los Angeles), 7—5, 6—3, 6—3; Adrian Quist and Don Turnbull (Australia) defeated Wilmer Allison and John van Ryn (United States champions, 1931), 15—13, O—C, 6—l, 7—5. Miss Helen Jacobs, defending chain-" pion, defeated Mrs. Helen Wills-Moody in the final of the women's United States tennis championship at Forest Hills, B—6, 3—6, and 3—o (default). After winning only five points in the first three games of the final set Mrs. Moody went to the judge's stand and announced that she could not continue. It was a dramatic and disappointing conclusion to one of the most spectacular matches in the history of the women's championships. The crowd of 7000 spectators "became wildly excited as Miss Jacobs crashed through in the initial set. "My right leg kept bothering me and I simply could not get to the ball, Mrs. Moody said afterwards. "There was no use continuing, though I disliked very much to retire. Miss Jacobs was playing beautiful tennis and deserved to win." Seven times previously the same pair had met, with Mrs. Moody never losing even one set. (Lasifc year she did not defend the title.) Mrs. Moody was wearing an appliance as the result of the spinal injury which caused her to withdraw from the Wightman Cup several weeks ago.-Her leg* however, bothered her more than her back, she said. She also decided to withdraw from the doubles, in which she was to have been paired with Miss Elizabeth Ryan, thus giving the title by default to Misses Betty Nuthall and Freda James, the British girls. The United States Tennis Association has completed arrangements for'_ two international team matches in Chicago and Cincinnati after the national singles at Forest Hills. Teams representing Britain and Japan will meet in Cincinnati on September 11. Picked teams from Australia and the United States will compete in Chicago on September 12 and 13. Australia will be represented by the full Davis Cup team and America by her leading players. Perry wiU head the British team.