HOW CRAWFORD FAILED

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 56, 15 September 1928, Page 10

HOW CRAWFORD FAILED

Australian I'tesi Aiioclatloa. (Received loth September, 2 p.m.) NEW YORK, 14th September. In his fourth set with Hunter Crawford began with apparently a wellmapp.cd campaign. He had discovered that the American's backhand at its best was defensive, and he forced his shots to offer Hunter a minimum of opportunity to employ his crashing forehand. The Australian accounted for Hunter's service in the fifth game to assume a 3-2 lead, which ho improved to 4-2, taking the last point of the sixth game with a service ace. It was the only deuce game thus far, Hunter winning the first love and all the others going only to six points. Crawford now lapsed into a series of errors that obviously cost him the match, since they came at a crucial moment. Hunter won the seventh game, the Australian netning and outing with dull regularity. He recovered briefly in the eighth game when serving. He stood 40-0, and then tossed away the next five points to see Hunter draw:even 4-4, and take the lead in the next game, 5-4, when the Australian seemed unable to deviate from his practico of finding the net or areas behind the back line. Crawford was now inevitably defeated, and he dropped his service in. the concluding game perfunctoriljfc ■..■..• ,