THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 21, 1937.
HUGHES AND TUCKEY LOSE SET
THREE
AMERICANS IN LAST EIGHT AT
AT WIMBLEDON
GRANT'S GREAT RECOVERY AGAINST A.C. STEDMAN
(By A. Wallis Myers)
London, June 26..
FOLLOWING the Wimbledon tradition, four of the last eight in the
ed to lose New Zealand the squar- ing game, and more American chops and drops, and more relentless re- trieving-if ever legs won a match this was it carried the tiniest com- petitor home.
ESSENCE OF CONFIDENCE The women's singles, advancing to a completed last 16, did not pro vide much speculation. The favour ites had it in each case. I thought. Madame Mathieu, the essence of confidence, played extremely well against Miss Dearman, to whom she only forfeited three games.
The French player is famed for her back court steadiness. She is new field. Was it to rehearse surprises that
fre- quently to the service line and used that always profitable stroke, the
men's singles were identified yesterday. To-day their four companions in this select group will be known., Three Americans J. D. Budge, Flaiming honours in Parker and the tumbling "Bitsy" Grant, after a dire struggle with Sted- she has in store for more formidable man-are through. The fourth, Gene Mako, meets Baron Von Cramm, opponents that she came up the German champion, this afternoon.
ONE OF THE FOUR BRITISH SURVIVORS, R. A. SHAYES, USING A DOUBLE-SHOULD- drive-volley? ERED RACKET; WAS DEFEATED YESTERDAY BY VIVIAN McGRATH, WHO USES TWO One was a little aurprised at Mise HANDS TO A RACKET OF NORMAL DESIGN. OF THE OTHER THREE ENGLISHMEN, Dearman's torpid bactics. She is a AUSTIN, HARE AND SHAFFI, ONLY AUSTIN, IF RELATIVE FORM HOLDS, IS DUE FOR most capable volleyer, yet she rarely PROMOTION. HARE HAS DRAWN HENKEL OF GERMANY, AND SHAFFI PLAYS CRAW-ventured in, preferring to play the FORD OF AUSTRALIA. HARE ONCE BEAT PERRY, AND THE GREAT PART OF COUR- mistress of the back court game by AGE IS OF HAVING DONE THE THING BEFORE.
methods which merely nourished the French flare.
On Monday the clearing house of skill will be left with only four tenants. A great match be- tween Crawford and Von Cramm is then on the cards. Their meeting last year was spoilt by a court and the late hour. If Austin survives he and Grant will clash, and if the story of Eastbourne is repeated Austin will win, though the little Atlantan has more guile than last July.
Donald Budge will be "due to meet McGrath. But for the Aus- tralian champion's indisposition, these two would have tested their new virtues in the recent Davis Cup match at Forest Hill. McGrath revels in an attacking service high lights are promis- ed.
We must
hope it does not come.
NOT BEST BUDGE
fruit.
SENORITA WINS COMFORTABLY
The second senorita-the first will seen in action. to-day against Miss McOstrich was another com- hand drive across the court, Grant fortable winner. There was the dosed him with low ones-chops and customary tendency to toy with Fate hooks galore. He was supreme in in the first set, and Miss Saunders, defence and raised tantalising lobs with her clean-hit drives, took full in the distant skies just when Sted-advantage of Chilean meekness to man was anticipating a hard-earned win four games, point
A busy set finished the match. MISSED SMASH
Miss Saunders lacked the backland came The New Zealander into the hunt after Grant led 4-1 in full cry, nor had she the nimble back parry which could hold the senorita in the fourth set, and but for anifootwork of her rival. ill-timed double fault or a missed Lizana tumbled again, the court
won it.
set, he
The fifth set was Grant's from
succes-
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the flank of the Czech by coming up The task of match-scheduling, himself, but not until the fencing carried out with great circum- had keen and thrustful. spection by an experienced com- - PARKER'S SEVEN GAMĖS mittee, has its problems. The Parker loves a leeway to nego- Germans and Czechs are due to tiate, and in his contest with Daniel smash after the longest rally of the was carrying a little sheen. She play their vital Davis Cup match Prenn, when the American was five-match, he might have just about might also teach "Bitsy" Grant how in Berlin the week-end after love down in the second
to acquire a more rhythmic roll. next. The surface and balls will rolled off seven games in
Miss Stammers, never in distress, then be different; they must get sion to rob the Pole of his energy's three. He laid its foundation by a collected an American scalp when preliminary practice. -
three-love lead; then had to brace she beat Miss Winthrop; Mrs. An- Delays through rain next week It was neatly done, too, for Prenn, and race again as Stedman, forti-drus, from U.S.A., squared the ac- might, if these Continentals sur with service and top-spin drive, and fied by sugar brought by "Buster" count by dismissing Miss F. §. Ford, vive, bring anxiety.
of lobbing astutely, had played Andrews, hit out and sometimes of Leicester. sound tennis. Parker is one of through again. A double-fault help- The centre court crowd, as dense those quiet, unemotional players who as ever and with the Duchess of! Kent in the stands did not sée qualify their morale; he wore Prenn quite the best, Budge yesterday, but to a frazzle and took the third set it was offered proofs of Hecht's with a clear physical advantage.
Australia's champion had a peace- passage to a complete player.
The compact little Czech a sort ful passage through Shayes. The of Cochet with a deeper swing that disparity in ground strokes was de- means more time, and therefore more cisive. Whereas Shayes made neat danger, between the strokes-only stop volleys when the stage was pre- won eight games, but he deserved (pared for them, McGrath cleaved through his defences almost at will After he had broken through when he was going at top speed. Budge's service in the first set, to bring him up to 4-5, bad- fortune The Grant-Stedman duel was easî- robbed him of the squaring game. ly the longest and bitterest of a He had three points for it.
not too exciting day. - The American
several others.
never allow an adverse score to
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TWO-HOUR DUEL
-A forehand drive of the Califor-took a swollen ankle into court, a nian down the line either struck the legacy of his Thursday match, and line or passed just over it-the lines- was handicapped accordingly. But man thought it was valid and a Stedman brought a splendid assort- beautiful lob landed an inch overment of low forehand drives,
and the baseline.
that spirit of stolid determination,. lacking all theatricality, which New
“HECHT'S ERROR
In the top-spin versus flat drive Zealand breeds. exchanges, most of them fast and With Stedman two sets up -the enterprising, Hecht lost valuable se-second snatched from a 6-3 lead conds by the spinful bound, but the against him-America's cause would slower flight of the ball gave him have looked black but for the re- time to come in behind his deepest cord which Grant holds of defying alices,
s, and off the attempted cross-disaster. Did he not defeat Hen- court pass by Budge he often dart- kel on a neighbouring court a year ed over to make a perfect stop vol-ago, after the German, with two ley.
sets in his pocket, led 5-9 in the The scores in the second and third third? sets scarcely reflect the toughness of He did it again yesterday. Find- the conflict. Games were strewn ing that Stedman preferred a ris- with deuces, and Budge had to turn ing ball to function his g
great fore-
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