LAWN TENNIS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22053, 8 September 1933, Page 9

LAWN TENNIS

AMERICAN CHAMPIONSHIPS THE MEN'S SINGLES (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) FOREST HILLS, September 6. The following are further results: — SECOND ROUND. Vines defeated Avory o—3, 7—5, 6—l. THIRD ROUND. Perry defeated Marco Hecht (New York) G—l, o—4, 6—4. Allison defeated Van Ryn 4—6, 4—6, 6—l, 6—4, o—2. Ryosuke Nunoi defeated Lott 5—7, I—o, o—l, o—l, o—2. Crawford defeated Jack Tidball (California) o—2, o—B, o—2, 7—5. Shields defeated Turnbull o—3, 6—4 o—3. M'Grath's opponent, Davenport (a young son of the president of the West Side Tennis Club), was incapacitated by a sprained arm, which softened his service and made his returns defective. Whatever competition he offered occurred in the second set, when, breaking the Australian's service in the first game, he dropped the next four, taking only 4 points, yet he came back to even the score by winning the following three games with tricky chop shots that failed to rise. He, however, lapsed badly in the two final games, losing the ninth to love and netting almost every shot in the tenth.

In the Shields-Turnbull game both men hammered each other with cannonball services, and neither was able to return them until the fourth game, when, although Turnbull made a service ace, he netted and outed Shields's defensive returns to lose the service. This gave the American a 3 —2 lead, which the Australian did not long allow. He solved Shields's delivery to account for it with long drives, and evened the score (4 —4), but Shields was now unbeatable, and won the next two games to love. Turnbull went to a 3 —l lead in the second set by accounting for Shields's service in the fourth game. With some fine angled shots he was within a point of breaking the American's service in the sixth game, but the latter fought a hard deuce game at the net to win. The Australian, however, was unable to maintain the pace and netted in the next two games, which evened the score —4 —4. The men then fought for advantage until the thirteenth game, when Shields broke Turnbull's service with magnificent placements and went into the lead. That spelled the win of the eet in the next game on his own service. ,

In the third eet Shields, having staved off the threat in the second eet, now proceeded to finalise his victory as quickly as possible. He literally drove Turnbull off the courts with the force of his stroking. The American secured a 3—l lead, which he later improved to 4 —2 and 5 —3, and then ran out the eet on Turnbull's service..

M'Auliffe, playing against Quiet, proved threatening only in the third set, when he quickly went to a 2 —l lead on a break in Quist's service. The American improved this gradually to 5—4. He was set point several times, only to have Quist pull the game out at B—68 —6 in points to even the score 5 —5. The games then alternated with the service until M'Auliffe dropped his in the thirteenth game, which advantage the Australian improved by winning the fourteenth on his own service, although M'Auliffe succeeded in deucing it once. Crawford met unexpected resistance from Tidball, the American intercollegiate champion. After breezing through the first eet with an almost errorless score, Crawford lost a long-drawn-out second eet through repeated net errors and his opponent's hard-driving _ game. The only game Crawford lost in the first eet were the fifth and sixth. Tidball seemed a little awed by his opponent. Crawford in the second set was at first careless. Then he was unable to control his returns of Tidball's fast deliveries. Tidball won the first game in the second set, then the fourth, fifth and sixth on Crawford's net errors and his own fast placements. Crawford won the seventh and eighth games, and then 6ee-sawed back and forth until he tied in the twelfth game. Tidball took his own service in the thirteenth. Then after Crawford's two "out" errors and a double fault Tidball broke his opponent's service and won the game and eet with a fast placement. The third set was a repetition of the first, Crawford losing but two games with minimum errors throughout. In the fourth set, after many spectators had left the stands thinking the match virtually over, Tidball made a sensational rally, winning the first, second, third,, fifth and seventh games to take a 5—2 lead, Crawford's play being spotty. A fifth sot seemed inevitable until the start of the eighth game, in which Crawford won his owrl service and clicked off five straight games in some of the most brilliant tennis of the tournament. Tidball was completely unable to handle Crawford's returns. FURTHER RESULTS. FOREST HILLS, September 6. In the third round of the singles M'Grath defeated S. E. Davenport (Forest Hills), 6—2, 6—4, 6—2; Quist defeated Eugene M'Auliffe (Yonkors), C,_2 ) 6—l, B—6; Gledhill deefated Frank Parker (Milwaukee) 4—6, 6—3, 11—9, 6—3.