TENNIS IN AMERICA

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21579, 25 August 1933, Page 11

TENNIS IN AMERICA

NATIONAL DOUBLES PROGRESS OF AUSTRALIANS VICTORIES IN SECOND ROUND BAD WEATHER CONDITIONS By Telegraph—Fress Association—Copyright (Received August 24, 5.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, Aug. 23 In tho second round of the doubles in the national tennis championships at Brooklines, Massachusetts, to-day the Australian pair, Crawford and McGrath, defeated Mangin and Bell, G—3, 6—3, 7—5. Steady rain had made the courts like semi-liquid rubber. A small, hardy, crowd of enthusiasts, most of them wearing waterproofs, were clustered in tho otherwise bare grandstand when Crawford began his service, and lost it. Both teams were erratic, finding tho navigation of tho court difficult. Bell, in spite of liis spikes, continuously fell. He lost his service in tho fourth, and the score was thus evened, 9 2. Difficult Game in Fog The Australians' chanco came in the eighth game, when McGrath, with his two-handed back-hand that intrigued tho gallery, and Crawford, with his smashing fore-hands, drove Bell s ser-1 vice back to his feet. The Australians were now in a com- j manding lead of 5 —3, which Crawford ■ improved to win the set on his own service in the ninth game. ; Crawford and McGrath quickly ran up to a 3 —o lead in the second sot, only to have McGrath lapse surprisingly and drop his service in the fourth game. A brisk breeze now started and a driving fog like thick smoke obscured the players' vision. Bell, playing particularly _ badly, faltered again on his own service, and the Australians assumed the commanding position of 4—l, but tho players wero not so much battling against each other as against the fog. American's Continuous Errors Crawford's continuous nets in the sixth game cost him his service, but ho soon steadied, and the Australians went into a 5—2 lead. McGrath, with two points to the set, dropped his service chiefly by netting his returns, but Bell, who could not win his service once in this set, dropped the ninth game through continuous errors and gave the Australians the set. In the third set, although Crawford's continuous nets put the Australians in an unfavourable position, they bitterly fought the sixth game through many deuces to the even score of 3 all. They might easily have run into a 5 —3 lead when they were within two points of winning the eighth game, but both now drove short with curious persistence and found tho net a sufficient number of times to allow their opponents to even the score, 4 all. , The Australians twice were match point in the ninth game, the first time 40 —love, only to permit the Americans to draw up again at 5 all. But the visitors were not to be denied and accounted for Mangin's service in tho twelfth game with some fine placement shcts and won the set. Quist and Turnbull Win Easily Quist and Turnbull (Australia) beat Coughlin and Culley, 6 —3, 6 —2, 6—4. This match was played in circumstances similar to the other Australian contest. Culley and Coughlin, however, were no match for Quist and Turnbull, whose superior stroking marked the contest throughout. Culley's service twice in the first set proved vulnerable, while the Australians, on Quist's service, won two games to love. The Americans, though they were volleying gamely and bravely, playing the fore-court game, could not produce sufficiently expert competition. Although the Australians were only one point ahead in the last four games of the second set their superiority was much more marked than would be indicated in the point score. They were scoring with placements while the Americans wero driving short. The games went with the service in the third set until the accumulation of the Americans' error? in the- seventh game offered the Australians the opportunity to account for Coughlin'a service and take a 4—3 lead. This they improved to 5 —3 on Quist's service. The Americans rallied and took the ninth game to love, but the Austrar lians clinched matters by winning tho tenth to love. Details o! Other Results Other results were: —Perry and Wilde (Britain) defeated Sutter (New Orleans) and McCluffe (New York), 6 —4, 6 —3, 14 —12; Tidball and Mako (Los Angeles) defeated Lee and Avory Britaiu), 7 —5, 5—7, B—6,8 —6, 6 1; Shields and Parker beat Young and Freshwater (Britain), 6 —o, 6 —B, B—6,8 —6, 4—6, 7 —5; Vines and Gledhill beat Grant and Makrath, 6 —2, 6 —4, 5—7, 6 —4; Allison and Van Ryn defeated Washburn and McPherson (New York), G —2, 6 —2, I—6,1 —6, 6 —3. Quist and Turnbull will meet Allison and Van ltyn (1931 champions) in the quarter finals. Crawford and McGrath will play next against Lott and Stoeffen. If both pairs of Australians are successful they will contest tho upper half of the semi-finals on Friday. The north-east gale, which was accompanied by a deluge of rain on tho Atlantic seaboard, " washed out " tho remaining semi-finals in the women s national tourney at Forest Hills.