AMERICANS WIN ALL TITLES

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 237, 4 July 1938, Page 9

AMERICANS WIN ALL TITLES

Clean Sweep Made At Wimbledon BUDGE & MRS. MOODY VICTORIOUS Austin And Miss Jacobs Overwhelmed Bv Telegraph —Press dsso.—Copy right. (Received July 3, 7.30 p.m.) LONDON, July 2. J. D. Budge (U.S.A.) retained his Wimbledon singles title by beating H. W. Austin (Great Britain) in the final. Budge won in straight sets and lost only four games. . - Budge was in devastating form. Austin, despite his pluck and resourse, was often unable to get within yards of Budge’s whizzing drives. Budge won 14 games on end till Austin broke through the American’s service in the third set. In the final of the women’s singles Mrs. H. Wills-Moody (U.S'.A.) beat Miss Jacobs (U.S.A.) 6-4, 6-0. Miss Jacobs’s ankle gave out in the second set and the match was a mere procession.

In the final of tlie men’s doubles Budge and Mako (U.S.A.) retained their title by defeating Henkel and Metaxa (Germany). The holders of the women’s doubles, Mme. R. Mathieu (France) and Miss A. M. Yorke (Great Britain), lost their title to Mrs. Fabyan and Miss Marble (U.S.A.). The final of the mixed doubles resulted in another win for America, Budge and Miss Marble beating Henkel and Mrs. Fabyan. Results are:— MEN’S SINGLES. (Holder, J. D. Budge, U.S.A.) Final. J. I). Budge (U.S.A.) beat H. W. Austin (Great Britain), 6-1, 6-0, 6-3. WOMEN’S SINGLES. (Holder, Mrs. D. Little, nee Miss D. E. Round.) Final. Mrs. 11. Wills-Moody (U.S.A.) beat Miss 11. Jacobs (U.S.A.), 6-4, 6-0. MEN’S DOUBLES. (Holders, J. D. Budge and C. G. Mako, U.S.A.) 1 Semi-final. H. Henkel and G. Metaxa (Germany) beat F. Kukuljevic and J. Pallada (Yugoslavia), 7-5, 6-2, 6-4. Final. J. D. Budge and C. G. Mako (U.S.A.) beat 11. Henkel and G. Metaxa (Germany), 6-4, 3-6, 6-3, 8-6. WOMEN’S DOUBLES. (Holders, Mme. R. Mathieu, France, and Miss A. M. Yorke, Great Britain.) Semi-finals. Mme. R. Mathieu (France) and Miss A. M. Yorke (Great Britain) beat Mesdames D. B. Andrus (U.S.A.) and S. Henrotin (France), 3-6. 6.-3, 6-4. Mrs, S. Fabyan and Miss A. Marble (U.S.A.) beat'Mrs. Heine Miller and Miss S. Morphew (South Africa), 7-5, 6-4. Final. Mrs. S. Fabyan and Miss A. Marble (U.S.A.)- beat Mme. R. Mathieu (France) and Miss A. M. Yorke (Great Britain), 6-2, 6-3. MIXED DOUBLES. (Holders, J. D. Budge and Miss A. Marble, U.S.A.) Semi-lluals. J. D. Budge and Miss A. Marble (U.S.A.) beat R. A. Shayes and Miss J. Saunders (Great Britain), 6-4, 6-2. 11. Henkel (Germany) and Mrs. S. Fabyan (U.S.A.) beat Russell and Miss F. James (Great Britain), 6-3. 1-6, 6-3. Final. J. 1». Budge and Miss A. Marble (U.S.A.) beat 11. Henkel (Germany) and Mrs. Fabyan (U.S.A.), 6-1, 6-4.

J. D. Budge, who was born in California in 1910, has been seen as a

coining world star since- he was eighteen years old, for he gave F. J. Perry some hard battles In various American championships. He made his first visit to Europe as a member of the American Davis Cup team in 1935 and beat Austin at Wimbledon and Cramm in the Davis Cup matches.

In 1936 be made a notable advance, beating Perry at Eastbourne and Los Angeles, losing at 8-10 in the fifth set to Ferry (the holder) in the American championships, and being in the semi-final at Wimbledon, where Perry beat him 5-7, 6-4, 6-3, 6-4. In that year he won the American doubles championship with; Gene Mako. • Last year he won at Wimbledon, defeating Cramm in the final, 6-1, 7-9, 6-1, 3-6, 6-1, and also won the men’s doubles and the mixed, with Mako and Miss A, Marble as partners. He lost only one set in his Davis Cup matches against Australia, and defeated Germany in the inter-zone final, winning all his matches, and defeating'Cramm again, 6-8, 5-7, 6-4, 6-2, 8-6, to win the tie 3-2. In the challenge round he again won all his matches, losing only two sets.

He beat Gramm once again in five sets in the American singles final, and then visited Australia, where his form was less certain, but where lie won the Australian singles championship, meeting Bromwich, who had previously beaten him in the final, and losing seven games. ROYALTY PRESENT (British Official Wireless.) Rugby, July 1. Queen Mary and the Duke and Duchess of Kent watched Budge and Austin contest the tennis singles final. BUDGE TO REMAIN AMATEUR , London, July 1. The Wimbledon tennis champion. J. D. Budge (U.S.A.), told the "Daily 'Tehgraph" that, contrary to rumour, lie intended to remain an amateur. CRAWFORD BEATS McGRATH (Received July 3, 8.30 p.m.) Sydney, July 2. In the final of the Australian hard court tennis championships to-day, Crawford beat McGrath, 2-6, 3-6, 6-2, 6-2, 6-4. MLLE. LENGLEN BETTER Paris, July I. The famous tennis player Mlle. Suzanne Lenglen, who is suffering from severe anaemia, is slightly better, but her condition is still serious.