NOTABLE WIN

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 81, 3 October 1938, Page 16

NOTABLE WIN

QUIST BEATS BUDGE

PACIFIC COAST TENNIS

LOS ANGELES, October 2

A. K. Quist (Australia) scored the greatest win of his tennis career when he beat J. D. Burge (U.S.A.), 7-5, 6-2, .5-7, 6-3, in the semi-final of the Pacific South-West Coast championships. It was Budge's first defeat in a major tournament since F. J. Perry beat him in the American national cham-

pionships in 1936. * The upset made certain an Australian victory for the first time in the tournament's history, as Hopman and Bromwich both entered the semifinals. Hopnt&n beat Hare (England), 6-1, 6-0, and Bromwich beat Sidney Wood (U.S.A.), 4-6, 6-4, 6-3.

Quist won the first set on sheer fight an dthe second on superior tennis. Budge was ragged, but after he had pulled the third set "out of the fire" the crowd of 3000 waited to see him blast Quist from the court. Instead Quist did the blasting, driving with superb vigour down the sidelines and across court until Budge was thrown out of his stride. In the final set Budge had no chance.

In this tournament Vines in 1933 and Perry in 1936 were beaten in their last matches as amateurs, the latter by Budge. It would be a strange coincidence if rumours of Budge turning professional in ten days' time were true.

Results of earlier matches included: —'Third, round: H. Hopman (Australia) beat C. G. Malco (U.S.A.). Quarter-finals: J. Bromwich (Australia) beat R. A. Shayes (England), 6-4, 6-0; Quist beat Owen Anderson (U.S.A.), 6-3, 7-5.