TENNIS THRILLS.

Wairarapa Age, 28 August 1933, Page 5

TENNIS THRILLS.

QUIST AND TURNBULL BEAT ALLISON AND VAN RYN. hardest match of national TOURNEY. GRUELLING FIGHT IN FIRST SET. (Received Sunday, 6.30 p.m.) CHESTNUT HILL, August 26. In the national doubles tennis quarter finals, Vines and Gledhill beat Jack Tidball and Gene Mako, of Los Angeles, 7/5, 6/3, 6/3; Quist and Turnbull defeated Allison and Van Ryn, 15/13, 0/6, 6/1, 7/5. The latter game was characterised by the hardest tennis of the tournament thus far. The first set was a test strength. The Australians, after having three set points against them at 5/3, drew ahead at 6/5. The teams were level at 13/13, the Australians taking the next two games to love. The gruelling struggle had taken something out of the Australians, who in the second set dropped five games in a row in five minutes, and then patiently let the sixth go, knowing the set to be irreclaimable. They played .brilliantly in the third, literally driving the Americans off their feet, with the large gallery breathless and cheering. The last set was very even. The Americans were set points in the tenth game, but the Australians stood at the net and simply blasting their opponents from the court, they won this and the next two games, taking the match. U.S.A. WOMEN’S TITLE. RETAINED BY MISS JACOBS. (Received Sunday, 6.30 p.m.) FOREST HILLS, August 26. Miss Jacobs, defending the championship defeated Mrs Wills-Moody in the final of the women’s United States tennis championship, 8/6, 3/6, 3/0 (default). After winning only five points in the first three games of the final set, Mrs. Moody went to the judge's stand and announced that she was unable to continue. “My right leg kept bothering me. I simply could not get to the ball,” she said afterwards. “There was no use my continuing, though I disliked very much having to retire. Miss Jacobs was playing beautiful tennis and deserved the win.” Mrs. Moody also decided to withdraw from the doubles, in which she was paired with Miss Ryan, thns giving the title by default to Misses Nuttall and James (England). STEDMAN WINS. NORTH ENGLAND TITLE. (Received Sunday, 6.45 p.m,) T LONDON, August 26. ehlmn- ' J"** E ' D « land tennis championship final, Stedman beat H K. Lester, 6/2. 7/5, 3/6, 6/3.