LAWN TENNIS

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21577, 13 September 1935, Page 19

LAWN TENNIS

PERRY BEATEN

INJURY IN FIRST SET AGAINST ALLISON MISS JACOBS WINS AMERICAN WOMEN'S TITLE

(UNITED press association—copsbiokt.)

FOREST HILLS, September 11.

More than 14,000 spectators saw the greatest upset of the tennis year, when W. L. Allison beat F. J. Perry, 7-5, 6-3, 6-3. in a semi-final of the men's singles at the United States tennis championships. ! . ' LI ~ S. B. Wood beat Bryan Grant, 6-2, 4-6, 12-10, 6-2. In the final of the women's singles Miss Helen Jacobs beat Mrs PalfreyFabyan, 6-2, 6-4. , . Atter the match, Perry said he tore a ligament in his groin when he fell during the seventh game of the first set, and it was disclosed by a medical examination that he had jarred his right kidney loose from Its attachments There was a swelling in front of and behind the injured organ. The doctors strapped his side with tape before making an X-ray examination. "It is nothing serious," the doctors said. PERRY'S BAD LUCK FIRST DEFEAT IN MAJOR EVENTS OF 1955 Perry's injury Is particularly unfortunate because it precludes the possibility of his achieving this year his ambition to hold simultaneously the four major singles titles of the world —England. United States, France, and Australia. It was an ambition that seemed possible of fulfilment, for Perry has so completely dominated the tennis world this year that he was fast coming to be regarded as invincible in championship play. Now he can do no more than equal the record of Jack Crawford, who, in 1933, won the championships of England, France, and Australia. The result nevertheless paves the way to a settlement of the controversy that has been raging since the Davis Cup challenge round—-whether . the chances of the United States team were prejudiced by the passing over of Wood in favour of Allison, for the singles. There will be more in the final than ordinary rivalry between two well-matched players. The defeat Is the first Perry has suffered in championship and Davis Cup play since his unsuccessful visit to Australia in the 1934-35 season, when Crawford deprived him of the Commonwealth title won by the Englishman in the preceding year.