LAWN TENNIS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 221, 16 August 1928, Page 2

LAWN TENNIS.

A NEW ZEALANDER ABROAD. SUCCESSES GAINED BY ANDREWS Recent cabled advice from E. D. Andrews indicates that he will be going to Amsterdam at the end of August, this following succepes at the Northumberland and Norfolk championships. It is possible that he will go on to Switzerland and then to Germany for the championships at Berlin and Hamburg. If so, he will be partnered bv Norman Brookes.

Describing Hunter’s defeat by Andrews oil the first day of the Wimbledon tournament, the Daily Chronicle said: “On court one there was witnessed the sensational defeat of F. T. Hunter, America’s second player and recent conqueror of J. Borotra in Holland, by E. D. Andrews, the New Zealand champion' and Cambridge University freshman. This was a five-setter with some real thrills, and it recalled tho days of another New Zealand champion, the late A. F. Wilding, who also achieved fame at Cambridge. Andrews revealed almost astonishing acumen for one so young against a seasoned campaigner of Davis Cup experience. He cramped Hunter’s most formidable weapon, his forehand drive, by skilful placing wide out, and also with a kicking service, and deftly clipped off both tentative and aggressive returns wij.li most expert angular volleying.” The Times, in its report, said: “There was one great match which, both for strokes and match balls, would have been a great match on any day, and that was the match in which Andrews heat Hunter. Early to-day was heard: ‘Andrews lias won a set from Hunter’; ‘How'did lie do it?’ That tale fillod tho court_ where the match was played, and it was confirmed for four more sots. It might be added that lie-out-volleyed Hunter. In fact, Andrews, as a stroke player, had no superior on that day. The only reason that ho came so near losing is that Hunter is a stroke player, too, and a superb match player in addition. Harassed as lie was, Hunter lost hardly a point through an error in tactics; lie plodded on when behind and kept iiis head whenever lie got it in front. Then there came the last sequence of a series of unreturnable strokes from Andrews, and he went down fighting dourly.” The Daily Express said: “Never has a more dramatic first appearance been made at "Wimbledon, because Hunter was one of tlie seeded eight playersranked by the Wimbledon authorities as good for the round of the last eight And the seeded international player was eliminated by an unknown competitor, aged 22, in the first round. There was no fluke or anything ‘chancy’ about Andrews’ victory. His driving strokes were fierce and aimed in a deadly fashion; liis volleying incursions to the net were beautifully aimed; and his strategy was that of a centre court champion.” Air Wallis Alyers wrote in the Daily Telegraph : “Andrews was trained for the fight; so was’ Hunter, but lie was 13 years senior to his quarry, and in the vital pinches of their five-set struggle it was Andrews who called successfully on his nervous reserves. The match, to which the crowd flocked in thousands, was full of vicissitudes, and had a good a finish as the most exacting would desire.- Like Antaeos, the Greek wrestler, Andrews revealed his strength from a hidden source, but when, with piercing service and gallant driving on both wings, the young player had won the opening set and established a 5-2 lead in the second, tlie American realised that all Ins resources would be taxed. By contrast witli this game, the rest of tlio programme was tame.” “The defeat of Hunter,” said tlie Evening News, “is all tho more remarkable when one remembers that Andrews was one of the ‘freshers’ in the Cambridge lawn tennis team this season,-whose only experience of international lawn tennis was obtained as a member of New Zealand’s Dnvis Cup team.” . In the Priory Club tournament which was held prior to AVimbledon Andrews beat A. D. M. Pitt, the allIndia Davis. Cup player, in the men’s singles, final by 2-4. 6-4, 6-0, 6-2. “Tho men’s singles final,” says tho Birmingham Post in its report of the match,” resulted in a rather remarkahlo game, tlie most nota.ble feature of which was the sudden turn of events after tlio first set, when Andrews, after being swept back by Pitt’s fluent and perfectly executed ground strokes, took 13 games running from 4-all in tho second set and followed an almost uninterrupted course to victory. In the semi-final of the men’s doubles at this tournament Andrews and Pitt were beaten by D. Plaistowe and L. Meldon, the Irish Davis Cup jilayers, the game being described as the finest of the tournament and the tennis as superlative.

HUNTER BEATEN. (Australian Press Association.) Received August 16, 1.5 p.m. NEW YORK, Aug. 15. At the Eastern turf court tennis tournament, Berkley Bell (Texas) beat F. T. Hunter, 7 —6.