GOSSIP FROM EVERYWHERE

Northern Advocate, 10 November 1934, Page 2

GOSSIP FROM EVERYWHERE

Britain’s Easy Win. In the first ‘lest” Britain decisively defeated Australia, winning two of the four singles and both foursomes. Young Jack McLean has evidently taken kindly to Australian conditions as he has not played a bad game since landing at Perth. He made no race of it with young Jim Perrier, the Manly crack, winning 5 and 4. Leslie Garnett. the long hitter who gave Lawson Little a great battle to the 19th hole in this year’s British amateur championship at Prestwick, and who alone among the British players was able to held his own with Little in length from the tec. defeated Eric Apperly by the same margin. The Hon. Michael Scott and T. A. Bourn were beaten, but Scott, cn account of his age, must be expected to lose more matches than he wins, and Bourn can be as hopeless as ho can be brilliant. He was all astray in the morning round of the foursomes and only McLean’s brilliance kept the Briton’s deficit to 2 holes at lunch time. Then in the afternoon he was another Bourn altogether, and, starting 2 down. McLean and Bourn defeated Apperly and Ryan 6 and 5. Scott and Garnett played brilliantly as' a foursome, averaging fours until they defeated McKay (Australian amateur champion) and Perrier 7 and 5. The presence of the British team will add enormousty to the interest of the amateur events at the forthcoming Centenary tournament at Melbourne. America’s New Bobby Jones. In the presence of the old “Bobby” Jones, the new Bobby Jones, on September 11, made a brilliant debut in the American amateur golf championship at Brookline (Mass.) by defeating Francis Ouimet, a former holder and Walker Cup captain, by one hole in the first round. Jones, who is an 18-year-old boy from Birmingham (Mich.), went round in seventy-two, one under par. against a seventy-four by Ouimet. Austin Achieves an Ambition. After the retention of the Davis Cup it was one of “Bunny” Austin’s expressed intentions to endeavour to beat Jean Borotra ■■• in - the covered court championships at the Queen’s Club. The famous Frenchman had won the title on five occasions when Austin expressed his resolve. Austin achieved this ambition by defeating Borotra. 6—2, 4—6, 6—o, 6—B, 6—2, in a thrilling five-set struggle which clearly showed Austin to have retained his excellent and improved physical condition. In the semi-final Austin beat Prenn, 6 —3, 6—l, 6 —3, and Borotra eliminated D. N. Jones (U.S.A.), 10—8, 6—3, 6—3. Last year Borotra beat Austin in the final in the fifth set. Recent English papers to hand tell us that Austin is busy writing a book and a play. It is not disclosed whether the book is on tennis.