THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 19, 1937.
CHILEAN CHAMPION'S LUCKY ESCAPE
-MISS LUMB MISSES GREAT CHANCE AT WIMBLEDON
DEVASTATING PLAY BY BUDGE
AND VON CRAMM: "BUNNY”
AUSTIN IN FORM
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(By A. Wallis Myers)
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But it was in service overhead that Austin was so different from the diffident player at Queen's. He had forgotten how to double-fault, and his smash had the finality of a well-timed stroke struck with the feeling that the point was won.
AUSTRALIANS' GOOD DAY
The Australians had an auspici- ous day in singles, although Craw- ford and McGrath later on were smitten hip and thigh in the dou- bles by the Czech pair, Menzel and Hecht.
Crawford did not lose a set to Andrews, but the New Zealander's kicking service v won numerous points in the long second set. Craw= ford had to wait for Andrews to
tire before he could "order his car-
The McGrath-Coombe duel was
of another determined affair.
The
Australian champion beat the New
IMBLEDON'S third day had its thrills and its disappointments. one time it looked as if the extinction of G. P. Hughes and Raymond Tuckey in the singles at the hands of D. Budge and G. von Cramm, invad-riage." ing giants, might be balanced by the overthrow of Senorita Lizana, Chile, and Henner Henkel, of Germany, by greatly daring British oppon- ents.
BUT THESE HOPES FADED IN THE CRUCIBLE OF CURRENT FORM. MISS MARGOT LUMB, SURELY THE MOST CONFIDENT DEBUTANTE ON THE CENTRE COURT. MISSED HER CHANCES IN THE FINAL SET, AND R. K. TINKLER, SHORT OF MATCH PLAY THROUGH BUSINESS CLAIMS, COULD ONLY HOLD THE PRESENT FRENCH CHAMPION FOR THREE SETS.
The Senorita's escape from eclipse in her second match must be described first. For escape it was.
When the favourite in many quarters loses 12 of the first 14 points and has collected only one game in a set that lasted just under 15 minutes, one searches for abnormal causes.
But the reason, I believe, was not really a mystery. On the Chilean side was a maiden so in- consequential in her play and tactics that she appeared to re- gard the match as a "great lark” and the mounting score against her of little consequence.
directed speed.
a
his
Zealand champion in four sets, us- ing his extra turn of speed and his almost impertinent drop shots; but admirable spirit.
Coombe carried the third set with
Another Dominions match, this time between South Africa and Australia, occupied the Centre Court for a long period. Those who took tea because John Brom-
struggle still unfinished.
find the
In the fourth and fifth sets he wich, in his exchanges with V. G. was the French champion and Ger- Kirby, did not hit the ball with the many's reliable second string. All pace of a Von Cramm nor serve as his best shots returned-fast first elegantly, came back to service, fluent backhand drive, deep smash and low clearing stroke on
In the end Bromwich, using two the forehand across
hands on his right side, won by 3 court with a
On the British side was a girl of
sets to 1. The triumph. was deser- NARROW TIMING ERRORS
volleyer profitably entrenched. Tinkler stuck manfully to And in this deciding set, if things fine. physique
ved, if only because he had the and spirit, whose
patience to wait for his opening loose left-handed wrist revealed the had been rewarded,
had gone right and her courage task, but it was beyond his powers, squash rackets court, of which, by might have led 4-1. For her ser- momentarily again after Henkel had
Miss Lumb and though his cause brightened and the cool brain to accept it.
DEFEAT OF BRUGNON the way, Miss Lumb is champion, vice was again imposing its well- been foot-faulted and had been sub-a fixe-set match with the Scottish France kept Marcel Bernard after and who, discharging an early bat-
consciously affected, his fate was champion, Donald MacPhail, tery of guns at a surprised oppon-
but ent, established not only a materially and led 40--15 in the third.
She took the first game confident- sealed.
lost Brugnon, who found the back- VON CRAMM THE MASTER · but a moral advantage.
Moving up to the net behind The play of Budge, von Cramm hand driving of Frankie Parker too Miss Lumb's movements were re-sinister forcing shot, she anticipat- and Austin in entering the third accurate and insistent for his 40 freshingly brisk and authoritative.ed the angle of the Chilean's re-
round "left nothing to be desired." years. She served with searching length, turn
Each was at the top of his form, Frenchman, had matters
Christian Boussus, another but, failing to follow
all his drove on the forehand with insis-through just enough with her vol- and their respective opponents, two tent speed, sliced her backhand ley, the ball struck the tape.
of them British and one American,
own way against Van Swol of the Netherlands, cunningly and made the net her ob- The same narrow timing errors
could only bow before the storm. jective after each forcing shot.
I had hinted that the rumours of in the last 32. He lost the second B. M. Grant also joined Parker were made in the fifth game, after She was aided by her adversary's the fourth had been carried. Again von Cramm's decline might prove set to R. Morton, a British player, unintelligent tactics. Lizana has Miss Lumb had
to be false. His reverse in Egypt but to prove fully, his physical fit- 40-15; again, been likened to Lenglen, but the though engineering the coup, the had a simple explanation and he famous French player would never clinching shot was missed.
did not withdraw from the French the loss of only three games.
ness took the next two sets with have used an overhead chop on the By this time the reprieved Seno-singles championship because hel Mako, too, was irresistible, and forehand to reduce the pace of the rita. had regained both her confid was overplayed and needed a rest more than a match for Hector ground stroke and offer her vis-a-ence and her “wrong-footing" skill. Yesterday against Tuckey his
Fisher, of Switzerland. America In the last three games, running strokes in every department were lost Hal Surface, who made a gal- for shots that would have beaten functioning
with perfect rhythm lant but vain rally against Kukul- 90 per cent, of the field at Wimble- and almost uninterrupted success. don, and always, at the end of her
Von Cramm took 12 out of the But the Yugoslav, though variable, jevic, leding 4-love in the fifth set. sprint, placing the ball in the most first 14 games, and though he had had a great left-handed drive. inconvenient place for Miss Lumb, to fight hard to prevent Tuckey's HARE WINS IN FOUR. SETS
virile volleying attack from level- Charles Hare was victorious had been forced to make a defen- Yet
engaged in this ling the score at five-all, he looked against Billington in four sets, but sive stroke on the run against a tour de force she forgot the score, an almost certain finalist when he Frank Wilde lost to Kho Sin Kie volleyer so mobile and cool as the and thought a game was over be had struck his last great passing in five sets. Wilde's service was English girl, the lob into the corner fore its time.
only penetrating for periods. In previously mentioned would have
HENKEL NERVOUS
AUSTIN'S ACCURACY RETURNS the third and fifth set he came up been exploited.
Henkel's peril against Tinkler] Hughes did better than his part-on indifferent lengths; came the The Senorita, who often begins was not brought about by any lack ner against Budge, but the Ameri- penalty against the fluent Chinese her matches as if victory were her of concentration. It was partly can did not bestir himself nor strike driving. But the dispute was long last thought, and as if she enjoyed due to nervousness of the German with such scalding pace as the and avering and the loser was not rolling on the grass just as much at times he was almost immobile German. His champion's best was disgraced by the result. as running on it, had command of and partly to the astonishingly only turned on in the last game In the women's singles Miss the second set.
fine service and volleying of the old or two.
Jacobs and Mrs. Sperling are head Lowering her trajectory, she sum Oxonian.
Sabin found Austin nearly 15 bet-of the field. The last-named beat moned to her aid those deep and On the relative play of the day ter than he had been at Queen's her compatriot, Fraulein Horn, deceptively pitching drives that the Englishman might almost have Club last week. On
the
harder with the loss of only two games, have won her so many tournaments won in three sets that is, have turf and against the superior back- and Miss Jacobs conceded only four in this country.
stolen the booty before the guards ground of No. 1 Court, his touch to Miss Heeley. Two finalists of But Miss Lumb's demeanour, awoke.
and accuracy returned, and he was last year are looking very danger- quietly eager and wonderfully self- He gathered the first and third for ever setting the American the ous again. possessed-an admirable crowd"
sets with splendid spirit, making problem of eluding his perfectly Miss Scrived, concentrating all player, like Lady Heathcoat Amory many good backhand volleys and timed drives and volleys.
the time, was too good for Miss at golf-never suggested surrender, smashes, and had a point for a 5-3 Austin, too, was on his guard Valerie Scott: Mdlle. Jedrzejowską and in the third set, when the lead in the sandwiched second set against the drop v volley that had made a swift advance, and Mrs. An- Chilean probably thought the match But when Henkel was imprison- scored so freely at Queen's. He drus, of America, came through at was as good as won, she struck ed by the score his method of shot in quickly to give an answer the expense of Miss A. M. Yorke.
'escape was clean-cut and masterful. in kind.
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vis a rising ball for the initial move. in a volleying attack.
THE LENGLEN WAY-
Lenglen would have kept the ball low at all costs; she would have aimed at Miss Lumb's relatively
weak backhand corner, and if she sheating tennis.
again.
drive.