DAVIS CUP HELD

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 58, 6 September 1938, Page 11

DAVIS CUP HELD

QUIST FOOT-FAULTED

FAILURE AGAINST BUDGE

BROMWICH SUCCEEDS

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(Received September 6, 11 a.m.) PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 5.

The United States retained the Davis Cup against Australia in the challenge round at Germantown, Philadelphia, by -three matches to two. Results of the concluding singles matches are: —• j. D. Budge (U.S.A.) beat A. K. Quist (Australia), 8-6, 6-1, 6-2. J. Bromwich (Australia) beat R. L. Riggs (U.S.A.), 6-4, 4-6, 6-0, 6*2. The manager of the Australian team, Mr. H. C. Hopman, in an interview with the Australian Associated Press, said: "Bromwich's victory simply reaffirmed our strategy. Quist should have defeated Riggs on Saturday. He did not, due to the breaking up of his game after the foot-faults began. His attack and even his resistance broke up and he was.simply unable to maintain the pace necessary to win. t "The foot-faults today re-emphasised the problem. They came on both days ' when he was fighting to advance and each time they robbed him of his spirit. I am not saying this because I am complaining against the judge. Quist has been really foot-faulting. There has been an unending controversy about that part of the rule forbidding both feet to leave the ground. It is beside. the point whether the rule should be altered but it is essential that Quist should learn not to violate it. That is the pertinent point. "My reflections after the series is that we had a . valiant and faithful team- They did well, and they have learned much of value. They placed themselves indelibly on the record. I think that the national singles may reveal the further pertinent fact that Bromwich is now strongly advancing to the No. 1 position in world tennis in 1939 if Budge turns professional, as he probably will. Bromwich's display yesterday marked him as easily the most versatile player after Budge." The Australian Associated Press z?.ys: The crowd was approximately ths same ss yesterday. At the start of ths first set between Budge and Quist the American was highly inaccurate, whereas the Australian's passing shots continually gained points. Budge's service compelled Quist to make defensive returns in the fifth game, which the American won to 15. The score was evened at 3-3, and the games thereafter alternated on service. PECULIAR INCIDENT. There was a peculiar incident in the tenth • game. When Quist was leading 40-15, the foot-fault judge called three foot faults against him, completely upsetting the Australian and seeming to have the same effect on Budge. The crowd booed, and Mr. Paul Gibbons, who was umpiring and who is himself notorious for calling foot-faults against Quist, cautioned spectators that "foot-! faults are part of the game." Budge dropped three points in succession without trying, giving the Australian the game. When the score stood at 6-6 Quist stood 40-0 to break Budge's service again in the thirteenth, but the American pulled out the game. The foot-, fault judge called two faotrfawits! against Quist in the fourteenth game, j and the crowd jeered unmercifully. Mr. Gibbons angrily cautioned the crowd. "Foot-faults are foot-faults and' should be called. This is a most unsporting protest against them. The Australian captain agrees with me on that point." Budge sportingly dropped the two points which the foot-faulting had cost Quist, but the latter was plainly unnerved and dropped the game and set. In the second set all the fire seemed to have gone out of Quist. JUDGES INTERVIEWED. Mr. Harold Le Bair, who called the foot-faults, explained that Quist leaped into the air when serving and clearly foot-faulted. When asked why he alone called foot-faults he shrugged his shoulders. Comment in the Press stand was that the second judge, Mr. Louis Shaw, did not want to spoil the match. There was little to do regarding the footfault situation, although; on numerous occasions it has spoiled Australia's chances, not by the points lost, but by the psychological affect on Quist. In the third set bath men played patchily. Mr. Le Bair told the Associated Press: "Quist had both feet off the ground every time I foot-faulted him. He was simply violating the rules." Asked if Quist foot-faulted before the tenth game, he said: "No. I called the first foot-fault I saw." Asked if Quist foot-faulted after the last one that was called, Mr. Leßair said: "Yes, he repeatedly foot-faulted thereafter." "Why didn't you call them?" he was then asked. "I didn't because the man's game thereafter was completely demoralised." The other judge, Mr. Shaw, said: "No, he did not foot-fault on my side of the court because he was facing into the sun and did not jump up." "But you believe he foot-faulted on Mr. Le Bair's side?" he was asked. "Yes, because I saw him repeatedly jump off the ground on the first day and therefore I know he foot-faults in that way, but the only thing that saved him on Saturday was the fact that his spiked shoes kept him in contact with the ground. However, this is a silly rule and should be removed from the rules book." Quist on leaving the court was a man from whom all the spirit had been extracted. He told the Associated Press: "It was horrible. How can I be expected to play tennis if I am not allowed to serve? Those foot-faults cost me the match even before the con: test was well on its way. There was simply nothing I seemed to be able to do after the tenth game. I was pretty well on top of my game before that and would not have allowed the match to go so easily." BROMWICH AND RIGGS. In the first set between Bromwich and Eiggs both seemed to be slow in warming up. Wi^h the score even at 3-3 the tennis became tricky and amusing. Both used drop shots frequently, and Riggs showed surprising ability to score points from these. | Bromwich netted little easy ones and the crowd was hilarious. Games alternated with service until Bromwich began to put on the pressure.

In the second set they again tried to out-trick each other with drop shots, and again Riggs came off better, and the audience liked it, but this time it was costly to the Australian. The American took the score to 5-3 after the best game of the match. The points were very hard fought, and were settled only after long and sustained rallies in which the American's' lobs or volleys ultimately proved ungettable. Riggs settled matters in the tenth game with a series of beautiful smashes and passing shots.

In the third set Bromwich won the