DESCRIPTION OF PLAY

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 44, 30 August 1928, Page 15

DESCRIPTION OF PLAY

Australian Press Association. . (Received 30th August, 2 pM.) _ NEW YORK, 29th August.'With three Australian teams in the quarter finals it seemed indicated, particularly on their shoeing during the past two days, that the doubles .championship of America would be taken out of the country this year. Hawkes and Patterson won their victory over; Jones and Ingraham without difficulty, and -the Australians would have overwhelmed their* opponents, but for the fact that the former were erratic and inaccurate. They were netting frequently and their play was spotty, but when it was good it was brilliant. The Australians gained a 2-1 lead in the first set, Jones finally making his services good in the. third' game'-.. after it went to deuce four times. Patterson, and Hawkes were driving out., Patterson dropped his service, making, the; score 2-2,—and when it stood :3-3; Ingraham dropped his service, and Patterson's service aces in the eighth game were too much for the Americans, bringing the score to 5-3. The Americans in a brief recovery brought the score to^ 5-4, but the Australians were not to be denied, 'Hawkes's service taking the tenth game. The second set saw all but Hawkes losing on service until the.games were 3-2 in favour of the Australians, Ingraham and Patterson botli-inakinig: fine placement shots,1. Hawkes's smashing shots were effective, Jones, prqvyig the weakest of the quartet. ;, The ganjes alternated until the score' was 44, but Jones's service failing once again gave the Australians the opportunity to run out to set. , ■ / The Americans won the, first''three games of <the third set, but the Australians' superiority was evident 'when they won the next sis games and match. The brief historyof Lott 's and Hennessey 's victory over Crawford and{'Hopman showed that the Australians were off form. Lott was erratic,: and, if pressed, the Americans would--' have been defeated in the first set. There was evidence of this when both Americans could not maintain service or handle theJ shrewdly-placed returns from Hopnian 'a and Crawford's racquets. The Americans steadied consid-' erably in the second sety and the--Aus-tralians seemed unable to demonstrate their best shots, the games'alternating with service, until Crawford's, was 1 broken through to give the Americans a 5-4 lead, ; from which theyquickly; ran out for sot. : .' : '''': Crawford .twice again lost his service in the third set,:arid this indicated that he was tiring. Hennessey dropped his service once, but the steady march of the Americans could not.be stopped. lii the third -set.-the'1 Americans -established a 5-4 lead,%ith abfeak ia' Hopman's service, giving theto-the.'neces-sary game for victory. ' v ;■"'-' Tkn terrific heat affected the. players of both teams in the Cummings and Moon v. Van Eyn and "Allison'match, Allison and Cummings tiring badly toward the end with the sets 1-2.' The Australians fought ha-rcl to get the long third set, and when the games were 6-6 ■ the Australians won the'thirteenth on Cummings's service. It. went to deuce twice, the final points being an. out by Allison and a placement By Moon. Van Ryn lost his service -in. tlie fourteenth, the last two points of the game, which went to deuce, being a placement by Cummings and an out by Allison, too tired to smash tod 'hard. A ten-minute rest seemed to help the men little, and when they reappeared on the court it was evident that the Australians were too tired to put up an effective fight. They lost, the fourth set principally by their own errors, and not trying too hard, apparently saving their strength for the fifth.. The Americans quickly rah up a 3-2 lea!flln the last set. Cummings on his service fought out ,the fifth game bitterly to repeated deuces, the final point being a lucky shot by Cummings, the return hitting the wood of Vau Byris racquet, bringing the score to 3-2. Van Byn won his own service, to make the Americans' lead 4-2. The Australians, however, were not yet defeated. Moon took his service to make the score 4-3, after the game had gone to deuce. Allison, whose service was terrifically fast throughout the match, seemed to gather up strength for the final tussle! Ho brought the score to 5-3 with his service aces, so fierce that they,could Tsarely be returned. But when Cummings came to service in tho ninth game, he,' too, ] showed great strength, two of his serves being unreturnable. Van • 'Eyn,'was staunchly backed by his partner,.^ho mado three placements in the -final game, to take the match.