TENNIS IN U.S.A.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 208, 3 September 1934, Page 8

TENNIS IN U.S.A.

WOMEN’S FINALS STAMMERS BEATS MISS JAMES Received Sept. 2, P-'«-NEW YORK, Sept. 1. I In the Eastern grass-court tenuis L hainp'.o;..'>hips, women’s singles, semitinais. at Bye, Miss Freda James (Br tiain) eliminated Miss Betty * I jF ,6 7—5, 6—l. Miss StamLis ’l Britain) eliminated the Baroness I, Pv i 6—l 0-6, 5—5- 1,1 the tneQ s i singles semi-finals, Lott defeated I .Shields. 4—6, 6—3, B—6. In the quarter-finals of the nien s isirt’ies Gene Mako defeated Gilbert 1 i f .,q 6 __4. ;—5; F. X. Shields defeated 1 Sutter. 6--“, 6—4: F. Parker defeated. iTidbai:. 6—L &- 3; G - Lott dc * Heated Bell. 6-1, 6—3. i in the- doubles tennis final at Kye« H ammers and James defeated ’•-.Lss Dorothy Andrus, of Stamford, ; u’jc.nectii ut, and Miss Elizabeth. Ryan, 1 j:/ the Jinal of the women ’s singles, i Miss Stammers defeated Miss James, J 6—4, 3—6, 6—4. • At Forest Hill?, Lott defeated Marco • Hechu (University of Pennsylvania), 6—2 10—8 5 —7. I—6, 6--3; Allison Jeicated Gilbert Hunt. 6—3, 7—5, . 6--4; Stoefen defeated James Farrin. j ; nr . y G — 6~j. 6 —J; Sutter defeated r'-JinVr Griffin, 6—l, 6—2, 6—4. Most i of the stars got byes. : .in the semi-iinals at the Rye tennis sourney, Lott defeated Shields, 4 —6, 6—3 B—6, and Parker beat Mako, i 6—6—4. ■ At. Forest Hills Perry defeated Carl IH. Schweihardt (Forest Hills), 6 —o, 6—l, 6 —3, in the first round of the i United States singles championship.