PERRY BEATEN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 216, 12 September 1935, Page 7

PERRY BEATEN.

TENNIS SENSATION.

Allison Conquers the British

Champion.

STRAIGHT SETS VICTORY,

(United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright)

(Received 10 a.m.)

XEW YORK, September 11

More than 14,000 people witnessed the biggest tennis upset of the year, when Wilmer Allison beat Fred Perry, 7—5, 6—3, 6—3.

After the match Perry said he tore a ligament in his groin when he fell during the seventh game in the first set. It was disclosed by physician's examination that he had jarred his right kidney loose from its attachments, and there was a swelling in front and behind the injured member. They strapped his side with tape preliminary to an X-ray examination. "It's nothing serious," the doctors said.

A milder sensation was caused yesterday when Bryan Grant defeated Donald Budge, o—4, C—4, 5—7, o—3. To-day Grant fell to Sidney Wood, who beat his diminutive opponent, o—2,0 —2, 4 —o, 12—10, o—2.

The women's final resulted: Miss Helen Jacobs (1932-33-34 champion) beat Mrs. Sarah Palfrey-Fabyan, 6—2, o—4.

F. J. Perry, British champion of 1934 and 1935, was reerowned at Forest Hills last year, and incidentally made tennis history. He was the first Englishman to win the American title for two successive years, and the first player to ever win the championship of three continents in the same year. H. L. Doherty, W. T. Tilden and H. E. Vines, ■wearing the' Wimbledon mantle, crossed to America and captured the second honour a month or two later. In 1933 Jack Crawford, while holding the championship of Australia, lifted the national titles of France and Great Britain, but he met failed to achieve the "big slam" in New York—Perry beating him in the U.S.A. final, 6—3, 11—13, 4—6, 6—o, 6—l.

When Perry repeated his 1934 success in annexing the American championship, his 1935 conqueror, Allison, was his opponent in the final, and the British player was hard put to it to win, 6 —4, 6—3, 3—6, I—6, B—6.

SOCCER

MID-WEEK ENGLISH GAMES. (Received 12 noon.) LONDON, September 11. Results of Association football matches played to-day:— First Division: ..Arsenal v. Grimsby 6_o, Birmingham v. Leeds 2 —o, Derby v. Preston 2—o, Kverton v. Portsmouth 3 —o, Huddersficld v. Wolver.hampton 3 —o, Manchester City v. Liverpool G—o, Sunderland v. West Bromwich 6 —l.

Second Division: Norwich v. Blackpool o—l,0 —1, Notts Forest v. Fulham I—l.1 —1. Southern Section: Bristol Rovers v. Cardiff I—l, Crystal Palace v. Southend 3 —o, Gillingham v. Notts County o—o, Reading v. Orient 4 —l, Torquay v. Swindon 2—l, Watford v. Exeter I—o.

Northern Section: Chester v. Accrington 4—o, Gatoshead v. Tranmere I—l, Mansfield v. Wrexham 3—2, New Brighton v. Barrow 2—3, York v. Chesterfield I—l.