TENNIS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 220, 17 September 1928, Page 8

TENNIS

COCHET AND HUNTER FRENCHMAN SHOULD WIN SINGLES CHAMPIONSHIP [ Australian Press Assn. ] Received Sept. 16, 11.5 p.m. NEW YORK, Sept. 15. Bringing together Cochet and Hunter in the final of the national singles favours the Frenchman to take the championship back with him. He was throughout the tournament never in danger. The younger American players could win a sot from him, but he was a stone wall against which all offence broke. His match with {Shields in the semi finals was an illustration. Shields is the junior American champion and will be heard from in coming years. He played a brave game against Cochet but could not win. He was leading s—l in the second set and stood at match point in the seventh game but Cochet brought the set score to deuce and with an all-round repertoire of splendid shots won it. Hunter’s defeat of lott is in the nature of an upset, for Hunter ’s showing this year has not been very good. Lott, however, is too temperamental to be a predictable factor. Some 13,000 saw the matches to-day and were hardly fair to Cochet. They would applaud tremendously when Shields came to serve and when Cochet served he was seriously disturbed by shouts of encouragement to the American. Spectators hurled cushions into the air at the conclusion to express their dissatisfaction.