AN ASTOUNDING MATCH

Evening Post, Volume 55, Issue 55, 3 September 1923, Page 7

AN ASTOUNDING MATCH

AUSTRALIANS PLAYED TO i STANDSTILL.

(Exclusive to Australian Press' Association) ' ... . NEW YORK, Ist September. - It was a.really, astounding match in which the Americans won the Davis Uip doubles. It was inevitable alter' the first two sets had gone to 56 games that the match should fun put with one team weakening, and it was the Australians who /could not stand the pace although .it. appeared after they won the -third set - that it would be the Americans, who would -not be able' to stand it. Williams- was weakest in the second and .third sets, making a; great number of errors and playing decidedly off colour. Tilden, too, was erratic, but in the last two sets both the Americans' were absolutely at the top of their games, and Hawkes, who at first played magnificently, descended the laddir albeit making , a brave ,effort to ' hold his pace, but he netted and outed repeatedly. Anderson alternated with spectacularly earned points and many errors. The Americans took the lead; from the psychological point of view, when tliey broke ■'through'- Anderson's service game; and this advantage they held ) tenaciously to the last. The Americans' play, taken as a whole, was magnificent. The Australians, too, it must be said, played wonderfully well, but, tlie margin of superiority the Americans showed gave them the match. ■' By winning the doubles America now have a lead in the contest, and Australia will peed to win both of Monday's singles to. secure the Davis Cup,/