AUSTRALIANS BEATEN

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18180, 30 August 1933, Page 7

AUSTRALIANS BEATEN

U.S. TENNIS DOUBLES HARD-FOUGHT STRUG GLF/ LOTT’S STUPENDOUS TASK (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Presa Assn.) (Received August 30, 11 a.m.) NEW YORK, August 29. In the Chestnut Hill tournament, Lott and Stoeffen defeated Quist and Turnbull, 6-4, 3—6, 7—5, 2—6, 11—9. The match was resumed in brilliant sunshine, the weather, however, being pleasantly cool following a night’s heavy rain.

The games alternated with the service until a break in Stoeffen’s delivery in the eighth, due principally to Lott’s errors, gave the Australians a 5— 1 -3 lead. They then took the set with a love game on Quist’s service. The games again alternated with the service in the third set until the twelfth, when the Americans, standing 6—5, broke through Turnbull’s service, chiefly on Quist’s snort drives, to take the set.

The Australians started the fourth set auspiciously with a 2—o lead and went into a commanding position, by accounting "for ’Stoeffen’s service in tTie seventh, the latter outing the final; point and angrily' throwing his racket into the air over his own error. Turnbull clinched the set the next game on his service. Both teams played carefully ,in the final set. The Americans took, a 4 — : 2 lead, but tho Australians were not yet beaten, evening the score to 4—4. They were on the winning end of every forecourt volleying rally. The teams were now on grim fighting edge and the games went 5—5, 6—6, 7—7, some of the low skimming shots that both teams made to win points causing demonstrations of pleasure from the gallery. AT/MOST AN ANTI CLIMAX ,

Tho match almost reached an anticlimax in the sixteenth game, the Americans having won the fifteenth. Turnbull, after standing 3—o on his service, had the game deuced when the sixth point, which was obviously out, was called “good” by the linesman. The Australians, however, won the game, 5—3. The struggle continued unwaveringly through to 9—9, and then the end itself came as a veritable anti-climax. The Americans won the nineteenth game, 4—l. The Australians seemed certain of evening the score to 10—10 when cn Turnbull’s service they stood 3—l, but they lost the next shot on a placement, and then missed two shots because the ball was driven between them and neither tried to get if. Turnbull drove a final easy return into tho net. He signalled his disappointment by firing the ball into the grandstand, but then patted Quist oil the back as both congratulated the victors in the hardest fought contest of the tournament to date. Lott, who is regarded as one of the greatest, doubles playei-s, had a stupendous task holding up Stoeffen, who was alternately erratic and brilliant as Lott carried tire burden of the Australians’ unrelenting attack. SEEDED PLAYERS. IN U.S. Vines and Crawford were seeded in tho first domestic and foreign lists respectively to-day for the United States tennis championships beginning on Saturday at Forest Hills. Shields was seeded second to Vines, and Perry second to Crawford.