TWO SINGLES DOWN

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 127, 31 May 1937, Page 8

TWO SINGLES DOWN

AUSTRALIA IN DAVIS CUP "NOT THE OLD CRAWFORD” GRANT BEATS BROMWICH (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyrlcht) Received May 30, 7.5 p.m. FOREST HILL, May 29. In the Davis Cup singles, Grant (U.S.A.) defeated Bromwich (Australia), 6-2, 7-5, 6-1. Budge (U.S.A.) defeated Crawford (Australia), 6-1, 6-3, 6-2. Budge, breaking through Crawford's service in the third game, took a 2-1 lead, which he improved to 3-1 with a love game. The American’s pace now became literally formidable and seemed likely to blast Crawford's racquet from his hand. His services were like cannon shots, which the Australian’s racquet spun anywhere. The American took three in succession to win the set 6-1. Crawford rallied encouragingly in the second set and led 2-1, 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. He was temporarily on a par with his opponent, whose runaway seemed stopped, but Budge won the next three to take the set. Crawford again temporarily rallied in the third and was within a point of breaking Budge’s service to lead 2-0, but his judgment ot distance again went awry. He dropped the next seven points, lost on his own service, and gave the American the lead 2-1. Budge now went into the lead 3-1, 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 finely-angled placement, and was within a game of victory. He had the match point three times before he could clinch the 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, deucing the fifth in his first show of resistance. Then he showed a spurt of unexpected brilliance, winning on Grant's service and his own service, but quickly succumbed in the next when the ran out the set with a love game. Bromwich steadied nicely at the opening of the second, assuming a 2-0 lead, 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 pulled out 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 shots working splendidly, evened the score at 5-5. However, Grant took the next two to love. Bromwich lost the first four games in the last set, scoring only four points. He won the fifth but the American, not to be denied, took the set and the match. The crowd cheered the Australian’s gallant fight. PERRY BEATS VINES CORONATION CUP WINNER Received May 30, 7.5 p.m. LONDON, May 30. At Wembley Perry defeated Vines 6—4, 6—4, 12—10 and won the Coronation Cup by two matches to one. Critics regard Perry as reaching greater heights than as an amateur. He dominated Vines throughout. Nussleln won the Coronation Plate, beating Tilden 10—8, 6—3. MIDDLESEX FINAL WIN FOR SENORITA LIZANA Received May 30, 7.30 p.m. LONDON, May 29. In the Middlesex tennis championships final Senorita Lizana defeated Miss Alice Marble 9—7, 9—7. CONDITION OF QUIST GOING INTO HOSPITAL Received May 30, 7.5 p.m. FOREST HILLS, May 29. It is announced that Bromich and Crawford will play the singles and Crawford and McGrath the doubles. Mr Sproule told the Australian Associated Press that the doctor forbade Quist to play for a week. It, moreover, was not wise to throw too great a load on McGrath, as he has not fully recovered from his Mexican illness. Quist had difliculty in gaining permission to leave his quarters to watch play. He indicated that he may have to go into hospital for a few days to hasten recuperation. U.S.A. DOUBLES TEAM NEW YORK, May 29. America nominated Bucige and G. Mako for the doubles, but tne manager of the Australian team, Mr C. Sproule, reserved the right to nominate his players an hour belore the match. Mr Sproule yesterday declined to indicate the nature of tne doctor’s report on Quist’s condition, but apparently it was favourable, because waist practised 20 minutes early yesterday morning with Bromwich. Since it appeared likely to rain, Mr Sproule jocosely said that he would not mind a week’s rain. He left that American farmers needed rain, and Intimated that he would be pleased at the opportunity of further rest for Quist. Asked whether he liked the draw, Mr Sproule replied: “It is like any draw. If the team is good enough it will wjp.” Mr Sproule was not inclined to minimise his own disappoint-

ment over the situation, but insisted that the extraordinary Improvement in Crawford’s form and physical shape made him a better player than last year, and that McGrath’s apparently complete recovery reduced the ill favour arising from Quist’s Illness. The managers of the teams have agreed that the singles start at 2 o’clock in the afternoon, terminating at 7.30 p.m. The doubles will start at 2.30 p.m. Mr Sproule Informed the Australian Associated Press agency that he had reserved accommodation for the team to sail for England on June 2. HUGHES BEATEN FRENCH SINGLES TITLES PARIS, May 28. Results in the French tennis championships are:— Men's Singles, quarter-finals: H. Henkel (Germany) beat G. P. Hughes (Great Britain) 6-3, 6-4, 6-2; C. Boussus (France) beat Cejnar (Czechoslovakia) 6-2, 6-2, 6-1. Women’s singles, quarter-final: Mlle. Jedrzejowska (Poland) beat Miss Helen Jacobs (U.S.A.) 6-3, 6-4.