VICTORIAN TENNIS

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 145, 17 December 1934, Page 11

VICTORIAN TENNIS

SUCCESS FOR BRITAIN

CRAWFORD DEFEATS QUIST

MELBOURNE, December 16. rive thousand people were present at the continuation of the Victorian lawn tennis championship meeting at Kooyong yesterday. Results are as follows:— Men's Singles. Final: Crawford defeated Quist, 6-2, S-6, 6-3. Women's Singles. Final: Miss Bound defeated Miss Hartigan, 9-7, 6-0. Men's Singles (under Nineteen). Bromwich defeated Huxley, 6-1, 6-4. Women's Doubles. Semi-final: Misses Dearman and Lylo ' defeated Misses G. and I>. Stevenson,! 6-2, 6-0. Final: Misses Dearman and Lyle de-1 feated Miss Hound and Mrs. Harper,' 6-4, 6-3. Tho winners played well in combination, but Miss Kound, who' dominated the play on her side, tried to do too much. Men's Doubles. Quist and Tiirnbull defeated Crawford and Hopman, 6-3, 4-6, 7-5, 6-2. In the men's singles final Crawford, playing confidently and with great concentration, attacked front the net, forcing Quist with every shot. Quist played courageous tennis to win the second set, but was-driven, into errors which robbed him of chances. If Crawford maintains today's standard he is unlikely to be beaten this season. ' :■ Miss Bound's victory was a runaway one, Miss Hartigan cracking up badly and not playing as well -as on previous days. There was little sting in her shots.. •.' ....-.' The men's doubles final was a. great battle, Quist and Turnbull playing brilliantly. There was little difference between the sides. . . Owing to rain tho : programme was delayed.) \ TnrnbuU had to return to Adelaide today, therefore be aud Miss Hartigan gave a walk-over to Mr. and Mrs". Malcolm in the quarter-final of the mixed doubles. Commenting on his defeat by Quist yesterday, Ferry said ho was in the tennis doldrums, though ho did not wish to detract from the undoubted brilliauco of Quist's play.. Ho said: "I am not making excuses, just an explanation. I tried ab hard as I could, but failed miserably."