TENNIS

Grey River Argus, 19 June 1936, Page 7

TENNIS

ENGLISH CHAMPIONSHIPS

(Aust. & N.Z. Cable Assn.’) LONDON. June 17

At the Queen’s Cub tenn-s tourna meiit, men’s doubles, third rourn. Quist and Aleflrath def-ated Billing ton a- d Alered (th 6/4, 6/4.

J. Oloifl - i-i the only Engli-liman Ju the. final eight of he singles. Ala'-cr was surpri-ingly defeated by an American, S ratford, in the th’id round. Budge def'at ed _llecht after a hard fight 6/3. 5/7, 7/-). W'mbledoa seedings are as follows;

Ab-Il's singles Perry. Von Cramm, Qir>t. All’s .i.. Budge, Crawford, Aus,.in. and the American, Grant. Crawford has tlie hirdest first round versus the German, I’reiin. Others are: AleGrath v. Purcell. Quisf v. Taylor, Sproule v. lion. C. N. O. Ritchie, Alalt'roy v. the Yugoslavian Davis Cup player Kukuljelic, Andrews v. Aesffiiliinan. Stedman v. Wilde. “It does Tot read sense.” ts. how Australian quarters s um up Crawiord’s seeding in Ih c Wimbledon s-mgles. Tliev emphasise lilial hi's American form showed lie was obviouslv supeiior to A'lTison. The Aus ralians are also mystified to find Qu.'st and Allison ranked above Budge. Critics, analysing the draw, forsee a Perry v. Cramm final, anil expressilie opi'iiion that th,, semi-final sts w-H be Perry. Budge, Austin ami Cramm. _ Wallis Aleyers, in the “Telegraph’ stiys"; “In Hie men’s lis't. the A\ imbledon 'Seedsman’ tactfully reduced heart-burning by nominating foul national champions tor the first foul places. A student of world form might question Quist s abili.y lo defeat Budge. but champions remain i-h.-mipions until they lose their

()tlll'll seedings are: — Women: Misses Rotiml, Jacobs, Mrs l-'al-yary Mi-es Stammers, Sperling. Alathieu, Jedrzreji wska, Lizana. Alen’s doubles: Crawford and Quist. Allison and A-an Ryu. Budge and Mako, Hughes and Turkey. The w-omyn’s doubles are headed bv Misses Stammers and James, followed by Miss Jacobs and Mrs Fabya ii. ,ii. The mixed doubles :iro headed, by Perrv ami Miss Round. The New Zealand'. Alalfroy, and APss Sperling are placed fourth.