THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 7, 1937.
AUSTRALIA'S DAVIS CUP DEBACLE
POOR DECISIONS
UPSET LOSERS
*H KANGAROOS
BUDGE'S SPEED TOO MUCH agility and surprising-court-cover-
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FOR CRAWFORD
GRANT'S PHENOMENAL RETURNS
(By Austral)
Forest Hills, May 30.
BELATED
BONUS
For Members Of
1933-4 Team
age enabled him unvaryingly to keep the ball going over the net.
DOUBLE HANDERS FAIL
Sydney, June 12. Bromwich was steadier at the The Australian Rugby League opening of the second set, assum- Board of Control, at its meeting ing a 2-love lead, taking Grant's yesterday, decided that the players service after deuce. But then he and managers of the 1933-34 Kan- won only one point in the next three garoos shall each receive the sum
an This represents
additional control, only occasionally sweeping
He
threatened bonus, a disbursement of funds that Grant's service in the sixth game, had been retained, in case of taxa-
games. His double-handers lacked of £10/12/3. down the court.
USTRALIA has been eliminated from the Davis Cup contest, having been defeated yesterday in both singles matches and in the doubles to-day which went to deuce, but Grant tic on the profits of the tour hav in the American zone final. In to-day's doubles the saved it and led 4-2. Bromwich re- in been decided upon by the board, Australians seemed to be unnerved in the first set covered in the seventh game, win-which received from the Federal ning it to 15 with excellently-timed Commissioner for Taxation advice by a series of bad line and service decisions, which placements, catching Grant flat-that the profits would not be taxed. the crowd booed vigorously.
SLOW MOTION FILMS
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footed in midcourt, but Grant forg- The board will await official ad- the English Rugby IN THE SECOND SET, WHICH THE AMERICANS WON ed steadily ahead to 5-3, his extra-vice from
enabling League regarding the itinerary of WITH EASE, MCGRATH WAS SLOW AND OBVIOUSLY TIRED ordinary court coverage
the Kangaroos' tour before express- AND UNFIT. THE THIRD SET WAS REMARKABLE FOR AN-him to return almost everything. OTHER BAD LINE DECISION AGAINST THE AUSTRALIANS, Bromwich, with all his shots ing its views. THE SPECTATORS AGAIN SHOWING DISAPPROVAL. PLAY-working splendidly, won the ninth remarkable ING J. CRAWFORD AND J. BROMWICH AGAINST J. D. BUDGE to love, and, after AND B. M. GRANT, AUSTRALIA ON SATURDAY LOST THE backcourt duel, the tenth, which he FIRST TWO SINGLÉS. BUDGE GAVE A DAZZLING DISPLAY clinched when he finally made his OF HARD HITTING AGAINST CRAWFORD, WHO MADE A way to the net, to make the scores POOR SHOWING IN THE FIRST AND THIRD SETS. GRANT 5-all. But it was his only bid. ing juniors attended the coaching ALSO BEAT BROMWICH IN STRAIGHT SETS, THOUGH BROM-Grant took the next two games to class for several days, then they for would not be seen sometimes WICH TOOK HIM TO 7-5 IN. THE SECOND.
love, and the set 7-5.-
PHENOMENAL RETURNS: weeks, because they had gone away Budge captured Crawford's service in the third game, after a
Bromwick lost the first four to distant centres to compete in hard struggle, punctuated by several double faults, and took a 2-1
hird set, gaining only tournaments and exhibitions, The lead. He moved to 3-1. with a love game, the final point being games in →
Craw-four po... Grant was sprawling boys should be released from their gained by a sizzling ace. Budge won the fifth game also.
all over the court, falling repeated-employment at the expense of the ford's shots lacking control. Many were short and others outed.
Budge's pace was now most! a point of breaking Budge's servicely and getting his shorts so muddy Lawn Tennis Association of Aus- formidable and seemed likely to to lead two-love, but his judgment that he was compelled blast Crawford's. racquet from of distance again went away, and them; but his returns were pheno- Mr. Membrey emphasised the ne- his hand. His services were like he dropped the next seven points menal. Bromwich was not playing cessity for altering the backhand cannon shots, which spun the land lost his own service to give badly now, but, like the other stroke production of J. Gilchrist and Australian's racquet. Budge Budge a lead of 2-1 instead. It world's player who have found D. Pails, who both resorted to slice. took the sixth game to love, and seemed, moreover, to be Crawford's Grant's persence hard to over- when Crawford served a number last threat, and the heart seemed to come, he was unable to do much
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to change tralia.
of double faults took his next be taken out of him as his play against him. Bromwich won the won the set 6-1 and the match in service to 30 and the set 6-1: showed nothing characteristic of fifth game 4-2 to 30, and almost straight sets, 6-2, 7-5, 6-1.
his great style. Budge
his saved his service in the seventh
STROKE ANALYSIS
won
The crowd cheered Bromwich's
STROKE ANALYSIS Double own service to love and led 3-1. He after a deuce game. But the gallant fight as he marched to the
Place-
Aces, ments. Outs. Nets. faults. temporarily halted his own head- American was not to be denied, and showers.
5 5
Budge 4 5
Crawford 3 2
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1 long rush to victory with errors in 8 9 5 the next game, but he resumed hîs BREATHLESS 10 MINUTES In the second set Crawford rallied seemingly inevitable pace, taking drastically. encouragingly in the second game, the sixth, game with pulling his service out after deuce stroked placements, to lead 4-2. had been called twice. He then Crawford then produced a tem- proceeded to put genuine pressure porary stubborn resistance, striving on Budge, and there ́ensued a desperately to retrieve his own ser- breathless 10-minute game, which vice, which Budge, however, finally Crawford finally won with place-broke with a finely angled place- ments, after 10 deuces. By taking ment. Budge had match point Budge's service, Crawford led 2-1, three times before he could clinch but he dropped his own service victory. Crawford fought to the owing to the accuracy of Budge, bitter end, but it was not the old who then lead 3-2, when he won the Crawford. fifth game on Crawford's errors. Crawford evened the score by re- trieving his service in the sixth, after many deuces.
STROKE ANALYSIS
Place-
Double Aces, ments. Outs. Nets, faults. Budge 1.
13 9 T Crawford 0 6:19 10 BROMWICH-NERVOUS Bromwich was apparently
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Crawford was now clearly on a par with Budge, whose runaway win seemed likely to be stopped. Vous in his first international teșt He, however, was cheated out of a match, and opened extremely weak- -commanding lead when about to ly, probably playing the worst ten- break Budge's service to love when nis of his tournament career. Hel a bad bound made him miss and won only five points in the first four Budge retrieved the game after four games, but got to deuce in the fifth deuces, and took the lead, 4-3, game. This was his first show of Crawford's drive now seemed to resistance. Then he spurted with collapse, and he dropped his service unexpected brilliance, winning the in the eight game to love, and seventh to love, taking Grant's ser- Budge promptly clinched the set in vice, and his own service in the quickly the next game with the loss of two eighth game to 30. But he
succumbed in the next, when Grant points.
ran out the set with a love game, STROKE ANALYSIS:
Some bad decisions, causing the Place-
Double "Aces. ments. Outs. Nets. faults. spectators to boo the linesmen, all Budge 11511 15
added to Bromwich's discomfiture. 14 - 14 3 Crawford 2 10
He seemed unable to produce the CRAWFORD FADES OUT Crawford again temporarily ral- variety of steady strokes necessary
to Grant, whose. lied in the third set, and was within to give opposition
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