DAVIS CUP

Evening Star, Issue 19045, 14 September 1925, Page 9

DAVIS CUP

RETARD BY AMERICA WILLIAMS AND RICHARDS WIN DOUBLES Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright NEW YORK, September 11. In the Davis Cup doubles, Williams and Richards defeated Borotra and Laooste (Franco), 6-4, 6-4, 6-3.’ America thus retains the Cup.—A. and N.Z. Cable. THE GAME DESCRIBED. NEW YORK, September 11. Williams and Richards were the superior pair. Borotra lost the first service game, and never caught up, the server winning regularly to the completion of the set. Borotra and Lacoste both lost the service in the second set, and Americans quickly ran to 5-1. Then Borotra and Lacoste improved, winning Richards’s service game, the only one that the Americans lost during the match. The Americans were superior in all departments, Richards driving and smashing and showing great pmeo, while Williams’s ground shots and backhand strokes were sure winners. The French led in the third set (the only time in the match), 2-1, but they were outplayed all through the concluding stage. Richards and Williams got off to a fine start, breaking through Borotra’s service with two sparkling placements by Williams. The Americans_ romped through several games, despite dazzling kills at the net by Borotra. The ninth game went to the French off Borotra’s service at love, all the points being scored on placements, but Richards led the Americans to victory in the set off his service. In the tenth game of the second set the Americans started with a rush that threatened to sweep the Frenchmen off their feet, racing through four straight games. The Frenchmen rallied, however, and soon startled the gallery by taking three in succession by sparkling attack and net work. They also broko through Richards’s service in the ninth game, but were checked in the tenth, which the Americans took after they had carried it to deuce, and so won the set. In the first four games of the third set the Frenchmen held the Americans on even terms, fighting desperately to turn the tide._ All went to deuce, both teams coming to the net in a series of flashing exchanges. The French were the first to weaken on Borotra’s service, which was broken through in the fifth game. The challengers carried it to deuce,. after failing at love-forty, but a double fault helped to decide it in favor of the Americans. The Frenchmen’s task now seemed hopeless, but they won tbe seventh on Lacoste’s service in a final desperate effort. Tin’s was their last moment of triumph. They were beaten back in the next two games, giving the defenders set and match. Borotra was brave to the end. It was Ills weak service that decided the match in the ninth game, but ho tried lieroical.lv to save the situation, falling to the ground in a vain effort to reach a dazzling shot sent down by Richards. Heat"and the pace told on both sides in the last set, and the Frenchmen showed_ the effects of the previous day’s strain. The doubles match lasted only one hour. AMERICA’S GLEAN SWEEP THE REMAINING SINGLES. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK, September 12. Tildcn defeated Lacoste, 3-6, 10-12, 8-6, 7-5, 6-2.—A. and N.Z. Cable. Johnston defeated Borotra, 6-1,6-4, 6-o.'—Reuter. The Americans made a clean sweep of the Davis Cup by winning to-day’s singles. It took Tildcn throe hours to retrieve the match with Lacoste after the Frenchman had taken two sets, hut, with defeat staring him in the face and every stroke counting, he saved the day by a combination of steadiness and good luck, aided hy very few errors. His opponent had him four times within a point of defeat. but he recovered. Once a net cord shot saved him. He preserved his record of not losing a single match in six successive years of Davis Cup play. Johnston, on the other hand, made short work of Borotra, disposing of him in less than an hour. The Californian overwhelmed the Frenchman by the sheer force of his drives and beautiful placements.—A. and N.Z. Cable,