GRUELLING FINAL

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 65, 14 September 1936, Page 9

GRUELLING FINAL

U.S.A. TENNIS TITLE

PERRY BEATS BUDGE

HELEN JACOBS BEATEN

FOREST HILLS, September 12.

F. J. Perry (Great Britain) won the national singles championship of the United States for the third time today, defeating J. D. Budge 2-6, 6-2, 8-6, 1-6, 10-8 in an exciting match which lasted 2 hours 50 minutes. As the score plainly Indicates, the tide of* battle swung from one to the other player in a long, gruelling match, and the partisanship of the 13,000 spectators for Budge, with cheering and groaning at improper times, greatly annoyed Perry. Although Perry won, Budge scored 28 games to Perry's 27 arid 187 points to Perry's 180. In the first set after Budge had broken through the Englishman's service in the eighth game to lead 5-3, the' prospects of an American victory brought the crowd to a high pitch of excitement. Here Perry tightened up his game, and with a remarkable display of slashing tennis won ' three straight games to lead 6-5. The American again rallied and forced the battle to 7-6 and 8-7. Although Budge several times reached match point, Perry always beat back the threat and finally crashed through to a 10-8 victory. In the semi-finals Perry, under the handicap of a cut finger, encountered considerable difficulty against B. M. Grant, but finally won 6-4, 3-6, 7-5, 6-2. Budge beat F. Parker, 6-4, 6-3, 6-3. , MISS MARBLE SURPRISES. In the women's final Miss Alice Marble sprang a surprise, defeating Miss Helen Jacobs, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2. If she had won it would have been Miss Jacobs's fifth consecutive American championship, and her disappointment was keen. After :a shaky first set; Miss Marble, who has been out of active tennis for two years because of illness, played a strong, steady game Which the defending champion could not successfully counter.. In the semi-finals, Miss Jacobs beat Miss K. Stammers, 6-4, 6-3, and Miss Marble beat Miss H. Pedersen, 6-1, 6-1. This is-F. J. Perry's fourth successive appearance in the final of the American championship. He was champion for the first time in 1933, the year after Vines wonHhe "double," at Wimbledon and Forest Hills: Crawford won at Wimbledon in 1933, but Britain took the Davis Cup and Perry,' who had not <*net Crawford in the Davis Cup match between Britain and: Australia, defeated him in the final at Forest Hills, 6-3, 11-13, 4-6, 6-0, 6-1, in a match which revealed Crawford cracking up after the rest period. In 1934 Perry won at Wimbledon, defeating Crawford in the final 6-3, 6-t), 7-5, and thus beginning his, run of successes there. He won the American singles sfrom Wilmer Allison 6-4, 6-3, 3-6, 1-6, 8-6. In 1935 he won at Wimbledon again, beating yon Cramm 6-2, 6-4, 6-4.. He also won the' French singles title from yon Cramm 6-3, 3-6, 6-1, 6-3, and then unexpectedly collapsed in..,. America, losing to Allison in the singles final 5-7, 3-6, 3-6. This season he won at Wimbledon 6-1, 6-0, 6-0 against ah injured yon Cramm. The German had previously beaten Perry in the French singles final 6-0, 2-6, 6-2, 2-6, 6-0. In the semi-final at Wimbledon, Perry beat Budge 5-7, 6-4, 6-3, 6-4, In the Davis Cup challenge rounds, of course, Perry has not been defeated in a singles match since the trophy was regained' by Britain.