LAWN TENNIS

Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22796, 23 August 1939, Page 6

LAWN TENNIS

" - i ‘V ' '.. AUSTRALIAN | FINAL IN U.S. DOUBLES QUIST AND- BROMWICH : • ; : v„ • ••’ ’ *. •/' HOPMAN AND MISS MARBLE WIN MIXED DOUBLES 'IMa PBESS ISSOCTATIOir—COStBISKT.) (Received August 22, 7.10 p.m.) BOST01?, August 21. American lawn tennis doubles championship goes overseas for the first time since 1919, A*K. Quist and J, Bromwich (Australia) beating'J. H. Crawford and H. C. Hopman, 8-6, 6-1, 6-4, in. the final, played at Longwood. This was the first occasion on which an American combination had not played in the final. When N. E. Brookes and 'G. L. Patterson won the championship, 20 years ago, they were .the doubles combination for Australia, at that time holder of the Davis Cup. Crawford entered the match not in shape, because of a recurrence of athlete’s foot.

Twelve hundred attended the match, a better crowd than was expected. Quist and Bromwich did not play to their peak in the last week, resulting in some speculation as to whether they were becoming stale before the next fortnight’s more important contests. In spite of the score, the match was close all the way, with most of the games going to deuce., Hopman, serving in the crucial tenth game in the first- set, had a set point, but Crawford outed a smash and the set was deuced. Hopman’s service was finally broken in the fourteenth again, after staving off the final point twice. In the women’s doubles final, Miss Marble and Mrs Fabyan beat Miss Stammers and Mrs Hammersley, 7-5, 8-6. Hopman and Miss Marble won the mixed doubles title, beating Cooke and Miss Fabyan. 9-7, P-1.

QUIST’S SUCCESS IN DOUBLES part in Five national ■ : ■TITLES BROOKES’ VIEW OP DAVIS CUP CHANCES t (Received August 22, 7.10 p.m.) | ''. , V BOSTON, 1 August 21. Quist, told the AuSteallan.,..Assocl-. gladX tOrday because I now have shared in',winning every major doubles title in the wirld; the'.German wjitlj* Bnriqufe Mair in 1935, the French with Crawr ford in 1934, the English with Crawford in 1935, and the Australian in the last four years.” Twenty years to the day after he and Patterson won the American doubles Sir Norman Brookes saw the title go to Australia. He considers Australia’s chances of winning the Davis Clip three to one on paper, but “a little better than even money when it comes to a showdown because there is always the risk of mishaps,, and the United States has such a big field to draw from.”

PROFESSIONALS TO VISIT N.Z. r' ■■ ' 7 - BUDGE, VINES, TILDEN, AND STOEFEN AMATEUR TEAM TO TOUR AUSTRALIA . (Received August 22, 7.10 p.m.) NEW YORK, August 21. ' interest has been aroused by the announcement that .Budge, Vines, Tilden, and Stoefen will visit Australia and New Zealand. They will' reach Perth from South Africa on September 1 and will stay six weeks, playing, two-day v matches in the capitals. ■ s They will spend a fortnight.m New Zealand. Sir Norman Brookes told the Australian Associated Press that the Visit would not-'affect, the visit of American amateurs for. which 'he was negotiating. He added that the United States Lawn Tennis Association viewed the proposal favourably. The personnel of the team would be decided after the national singles. He said that the amateurs would compete in the Australian cham-r pionships. The Australian , tennis public in any event was large enough to support two tours.