PERRY’S THIRD WIN

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 299, 14 September 1936, Page 9

PERRY’S THIRD WIN

—■* ——— ■ S Budge Beaten in Final of U.S.A. Tennis Singles MISS JACOBS LOSES TO MISS MARBLE (Received September 13, 7 p.m.) Forest Hills, September 12. . F. J. Perry won the national singles championship of the United States for the third time to-day, defeating J. D. Budge 2-6/ 6-2, 8-6, 1-6, 10-8, in an exciting match which lasted 2hr. 50min. As the score plainly indicates, the tide of battle swung from one to the other player in a long, gruelling match, and the partisanship of the 13,000 spectators for Budge, with cheering and groaning at improper times, greatly annoyed Perry. Although Perry won. Budge scored 28 games to Perry’s 2< and 187 points to Perry’s 180. J, In the fifth set after Budge' had broken through the Englishman’s service in the eighth game to lead 5-3. the prospects of an American victory brought the crowd to a high pitch of excitement. Here Perry tightened up his game, and with a remarkable display of slashing tennis won three straight games to lead 6-5. The American again rallied and forced the battle td 7-6 and 8-7, Although Budge several times reached match point, Perry always beat back the threat and finally crashed through to a 10-8 victory. In the' semi-finals Perry, under the handicap of a cut finger, encountered considerable difficulty against B. JI. Grant, but finally won >6-4, 3-6.J7-5, 6-2.. Budge beat F. Parker, 6-4, 6-3, 6-3. Surprise In Women’s Final. In the women’s final Miss Alice Marble sprang a surprise.. defeating Miss Helen Jacobs, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2. If she had won it would have been Miss Jacobs’s fifth consecutive American championship, and her disappointment was keen. After a shaky first set. Miss Marble, who has been out of active tennis for two years because of illness, played a strong, steady game which the defending champion could not successfully counter.

In the semi-finals, Miss Jacobs beat Miss K. Stammers,. 6-4, 6-3, and Miss Marble beat Miss H. Pedersen, 6-1, 6-1.