LATE NEWS Australians Win Doubles In Davis Cup Match

Greymouth Evening Star, 1 September 1947, Page 5

LATE NEWS Australians Win Doubles In Davis Cup Match

(Rec. 3 p.m.) NEW YORK, Aug. 31. Australia today won the doubles tie in the Davis Cup challenge round against the United States. Bromwich and Long beat Kramer and Schroeder 6-4, 2-6, 6-3, 6-4. The doubles match was played in hot humid weather. The Australians, with everything at stake,, played fiercely and Long was grand overhead. The games went with service in the second set to 2-all, but both Australians struck a bad patch and dropped their services to give the Americans the second set 6-2.

Patchy Play Play on both sides early in the third set was patchy as all four began to feel the strain. The service prevailed in the first four games and then the Australians for the first time in the match broke through Schroeder for 3-2 after a hard-fought game and went on to win the set.

After the interval Kramer started serving and took the game to love. Bromwich was within a point of losing his service, but held . it -when Kramer poked a weak- forehand into the net. The games then continued to go with the service to 4-all. Bromwich volleyed crisp winners and Long was splendid in the air. The first break in service came in the ninth game when the Australians took Kramer’s. Bromwich led 30-0 on his service in the tenth game, but was overhauled. He had matchpoint when serving to Kramer, who over-hit a low drive and the game was over with Australia keeping the challenge round alive. *'■ - A Great Fight The crowd seemed delighted with the great fight by Bromwich and Long. Bromwich made the most of openings and Long finished off rallies. Bromwich’s low-angled shots slowed up the Americans and forced them to play upwards to Long’s waiting racquet. The crowd was even smaller than yesterday’s and the match has been a financial disappointment. The Americans’ clean sweep yesterday and'the predictions of an easy American victory in the doubles had reduced public interest. :

British Miners To Press Claims In Spite Of Crisis

(Rcc. 3.5 p.m.) LONDON, Aug. 31. One of the miners’ leaders said the National Union of Mineworkers had agreed to the introduction of the general council declaration solely to broaden the basis for discussion on the imperative need for more coal output.

“This does not commit us to postponing our claims to better conditions until the output has gone up,” he said. “We shall go ahead with our application for a substantial- increase in minimum wages and the full implementation of the miners’ charter.”

The Wath miner's have decided to resume. Thorne has deferred its decision, leaving Ferrymore and Grimethorpe still definitely on strike out of the 15 pits involved. A Secret Ballot The Grimethorpe miners are taking a secret ballot tomorrow on the questions of the acceptance of the increased stint and the immediate resumption of work. The miners employed at the Hickleton, Barnborough, and Highgate collieries, after a three-hour meeting addressed by a Labour member of Parliament, Mr Wilfred Paling, unanimously agreed to resume work immediately. The meeting decided to advise the Grimethorpe strikers to return to work. The Burnley miners’ leaders decided to recommend to their men to observe Burnley’s autumn holiday on September 8,9, and 10, despite the Coal Board’s recommendation that the pits should be kept working. A Burnley Miners’ Association official said the men resented the Coal Board’s failure to consult them about holiday arrangements. The Coal Board, in a statement, denied responsibility for the grievance of the clerical workers at the collieries about union recognition.

The Clerical Workers’ Union today gave notice that it will call out its 10,000 members at the collieries on September 6. It blamed the Coal Board for failing to establish machinery to conduct negotiations with the Miners’ Union. The board’s reply says the question of representation is an interunion matter between the Clerical Workers’ and the Mineworkers’ Unions. The board is standing by its statutory obligations. T.U.C. Debate Reuter’s says the T.U.C. conference opening tomorrow will debate the declaration from the T.U.C. general council on the “Miners and the Nation.” The declaration, while approving the steps taken to improve mining pay and conditions, says, the nation cannot wait for the full benefits from nationalisation to increase production and urges the Coal Board and the miners to secure immediate expansion of output. MINER INJURED BY FALL OF COAL A fall of coal occurred in the Dobson State mine this morning, injuring a miner, Donald James Williams, aged 36 years, •of Coal Creek road, Taylorville. He was struck on the chest by the coal, suffering a fracture of two ribs and contusions of the left leg. He was admitted to the hospital; and his condition this afternoon was reported to be satisfactory.