TENNIS

Greymouth Evening Star, 5 June 1934, Page 5

TENNIS

U.S.A.’s CUP CHANCES. [BY CABLE —PEESS ASSN. —COPYEIGHT.) BALTIMORE, June 3. R. Norris Williams, who is the second non-playing captain of the United States Davis Cup team, believes the team has a fifty-fifty chance to defeat the winner of the European zone play. “Our men are showing much improvement,” he said, after watching the concluding matches against Mexico. Mr Williams thinks Australia is the team that the United States will have to beat in order to meet England. FRENCH DOUBLES. LONDON, June 3. Mr Wallis Myers in the “Daily Telegraph”’ says: “Against Crawford and McGrath, the Frenchmen true to their habit, began erratically, but McGrath faltered badly at the end of the first set when the Australians were within a stroke of being 5/1. Then Crawford, in the fourth set, was playing on his nerves, rather than on his physical reserves, but he made heroic efforts in the fifth set. McGrath, when the Australians in the last set were leading 7/6, played with the coolness of a veteran, but lost his service in the fifth game, although he was not entirely to blame for this. With Borotra rampant in the next game, and with Crawford obviously worn out, the Frenchmen won through. The Australians were great in their recovery, but were less great in clinching their advantage, and allowed victory to elude them.