DAVIS CUP MATCH

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23204, 31 May 1937, Page 9

DAVIS CUP MATCH

• AMERICAN ZONE FINAL RESULTS OF THE SINGLES AUSTRALIANS LOSE BOTH (United Press Association) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) FOREST HILLS, May 29. (Received May 30, at 8 p.m.) In the Davis Cup Singles Grant defeated Bromwich 6—2, 7—5, 6—l; Budge defeated Crawford 6—l, 6—3, 6—2. Budge, breaking through Crawford's service in the third game, took a lead of 2—l, which he improved to 3—l with a love game. The American's pace now became literally formidable, and he leemed likely to blast Crawford's racket from his hand. His services were like cannon shots, which the Australian's racket spun anywhere. The American took three games in succession to win the set, 6—l. Crawford rallied encouragingly in the second set and led 2—l, but dropped his own service in the next, and the American pulled up to a 3—2 lead, winning the fifth chiefly on Crawford's errors. The Australian evened the score, retrieving his service in the sixth, and he was temporarily on a par with his opponent, whose runaway seemed to be stopped, but Budge won the next three games to take the set. Crawford again temporarily rallied in the third set and was within a point of breaking Budge's service to lead 2—o, but his judgment of distance again went awry and he dropped the next seven points. He lost his own service and gave the American a lead of 2—l. Budge now went into a lead of 3—l, and then 4—2, when Crawford produced a temporary stubborn resistance, striving desperately to retrieve his own service, which the American, however, finally broke with a finelyangled placement and was within a game of victory. He had match point three times before he could clinch his victory. Crawford fought to the bitter end, but it was not the old Crawford. Bromwich was apparently nervous, and in his first international test game against Grant he opened extremely badly. He won only five points in the first four games, taking the fifth to deuce in his first show of real resistance. Then he showed a spurt of unexpected brilliance, winning Grant's service and his own, but quickly succumbed in the next when the American took the set with a love game. Bromwich steadied nicely at the opehing of the second set, assuming a lead of 2—o, but the Australian won only one point in the next three games. His double-handers lacked distance. He threatened Grant's service in the sixth, but the American took the game and led 4—2. Bromwich recovered in the seventh with excellently-timed placements, catching the American flat-footed in midcourt, but Grant forged steadily ahead to 5—3, his extraordinary court coverage enabling him to return almost everything. Bromwich, with all his shots working splendidly, evened the score at 5—5. Grant, however, took the next two to love.

Bromwich lost the first four games of the last set, scoring only four points. He won the fifth, but the American, not to be denied, took the set and match. The crowd cheered the Australians' gallant fight.