TENNIS IN AMERICA

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 45, 21 August 1931, Page 8

TENNIS IN AMERICA

BRITISH WOMEN DO WELL

PERRY IN NEWPORT FINALS

(Eeceived 21st August, 2 pan.) -. ■ NEW YOKK, 20th1 August. At Newport, in the semi-finals »f th» Casino^ tournament,-- Perry defeated Wood by default. Perry led 6-3, 5-7, 6-1, 6-5, and needed a single point for victory, when Wood suffered « severe leg cramp. s-^i : cce ci feated Vaa Eyn« 63« 7-°> In the1 second.round of the doubles '' Perry and Hughes (England) defeated Yorkf 6 34d Ed- rei4len>an (New At Forest Hills in the third round of the women's singles Mrs. ShepherdBarron: defeated. Mrs.Jessup,;6-8, 6=o, 6-3, completing a match begun on Wednesday. Miss Phyllis Mudford defeated Miss' Sarah Palfrey, 6-2, 7-5. Mis* Nuthall defeated Miss Josephine Cruiekshank (California), 6-3, 6-2, giving the British players four of the. eight quarter-final places. : ■':■-.'. In the doubles Miss Dorothy. Bound and Miss Jacobs defeated Mrs. Pitt-man-and Miss Joan Ridley, ■ 6-3. 6-3. Mrs. Shepherd-Barron and ;Miss Mudford defeated Miss Florence le Bontillier (Westbury) and Miss Barbara Stoddard (New York), 6-2, 6-L Mts. Whittingstall and Miss Nuthall defeated Mrs. Wightman and Miss . Editk Sigourney (Boston), 6-2, 6-2. ,;