CHAMPION DEFEATED
AUSTRALIAN TENNIS TITLE Seeing that J. H. Crawford defeated J. Bromwirh in the semi-final of the Australian lawn tennis championship last Saturday and that A. K. Quist beat Crawford in tho final on Monday, the following prediction of the result of the event by a Melbourne critic was a little astray. He wrote: Because he has an absolute hatred of; hein* defeated —together with the fact that ho Is cKirl.v our best player to-day—John Bromwich must be chosen to retain his national •singles title comfortably in the Australian championships- Last year one would civen Quist almost an even chance of dofcilin"- Bromwich before their final, but Bromwich has shown such imnrovcinent and mastery in the last few months that Quist would be erivon little or no hope of defeating him to-day. Bromwich has always thrived oil his dislike of being defeated. It was that oualitY which brought him so many fliio. wins even back in 1031, 1035 and 10-llb. It if.'is ciused him to fight tigerishly in his matches. Ho never goes down passively, as some champions do when they meet their master or when they have a bad day. Bromwich may bavo ,bad days, but- ho' always fights. , , . . . - -
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23574, 7 February 1940, Page 7
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