CHARLES HARE THRILLS WIMBLEDON HENNER HENKEL AGAIN TAKEN TO FIVE SETS BY BRITAIN'S
WITH
DAVIS CUP HOPE
CZECHOSLOVAKIAN
VICTORY
DOUBLES
OVER AMERICANS
London, June 26.
American, who started shakily, was unable to find his length, and was continually outdriving. The Ger- man was never extended:
Von Cramm continued his super- Tative form in the second set. Mako was endeavouring to force the pace, repeatedly trying his luck at the net, but the German, with his ITH possibly a place in the British Davis Cup team at stake; C. widely-angled drives, wag finding Hare gave a great display against Henner Henkel at Wimbledon to- the line unerringly.✨ Cramm, too, day. For the second time, the German Davis Cup player was t taken to five
was scoring with his service. The American had no adequate reply to sets by an Englishman. Hare played a gallant game, and just failed to this, and his returns pull off the match. After being a set up at the end of the third.
ANOTHER GERMAN REACHED THE LAST EIGHT WHEN BARON VON GRAMM EAS- ILY DISPOSED OF GENE MAKO. THE AMERICAN WAS HARDLY LONG ENOUGH ON COURT TO BE ABLE TO TELL HIS COMPATRIOT, BUDGE, MUCH ABOUT THE GERMAN'S FORM. H. W. AUSTIN MADE SURE THAT THERE WOULD BE ONE ENGLISHMAN IN THE LAST EIGHT BY BEATING THE BELGIAN, LACROIX, VERY EASILY.
The four Men's Singles matches in the Championships to-day completed the last eight. Three Americans and one Australian had already reached that stage, and it seemed likely that another Australian and two Germans would get there, with H. W. Austin as the sole British survivor. It was for C. E. Hare to prove that forecast wrong. He opened the Centre Court programme against H. Henkel, the second ranked German, and the chances were that Hare would be picked as the second singles man in the Davis Cup team if he made a good showing.
Outside both entrances to the All-England Club the queues were at least 100 yards long, and The stands were nearly full to avoid congestion they were let through from 9.30 this morning. half an hour before play was due to begin.
Hare was a good half a head
taller than his opponent, and his service looked like being a pow- erful weapon. In the very first game he put over three speedy deliveries that aced the German outright, and he pursued the right tactics by storming the net.
FINE RECOVERY WORK Henkel adopted similar tactics, countered with some services and volleys that were as decisive as Hare's. Whereas Henkel's strokes were well knit and under good con- trol, the defensive nature of the Englishman's backhand was always apparent.
Hare's volleying held the German to 3-all, after each had broken the other's service, but Henkel got over some good backhand passing shots to win the first set 6-4 with a love game.
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THUNDERED APPLAUSE Hare, with a better length on the ground, had a chance for 3-0 in the second set. Two double faults, the first at game point, were more than he could afford, but when he went on to win game point in the fifth with a brilliant passing shot down the line, the crowd thundered applause.
A gallant, laser and a gentleman Baron Gottfried Von Cramm, above, the Wimbledon runner-up, came to within an ace of carrying Germany into the Challenge Round of the Davis Cup Competition, when he lost to Donald Budge, of the Unit- ed States, în a memorable struggle which will go down in tennis his- tory as the most stirring battle Hare's anticipation and recovery
ever seen on the Centre Court. against the German's smashing
two costly double were the chief features of his game, faults in the seventh game enabled and a love game on his own service
his opponent to take an almost im gave Hare the second set at 6-3.
pregnable 52 lead. Henkel had no difficulty in winning his service for the fourth set at 6-2.
·HENKEL HELPLESS Hare's volleying has never been better, and several times Henkel stood watching helplessly as the ball rocketed away.
up to 2-3 bu
TWO SERVICE ACES Hare was now on his metal. He Both men held their services to started the final set with two ser- 2-all in the third set, but Hare vice aces and a glorious half volley then speeded up his returns, and im-off Henkel's fast return gave the mediately broke through. The Ger-Englishman a one-love lead and man was clearly anxious, and 2-4 brought the crowd to their feet to down, he stormed the net in des-troar their approbation.
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peration to pull up a game. Hare, Hare's ground strok
were sum-
marily dispatched by Cramm."
MAKO HELPLESS-
The German took the second set 6-2, and the third 6-3. In the closing stages von Cramm played as he had never done before,. aceing his ser- vices and driving Mako never knew where. When the match ended; the [crowd, who packd- every inch of the stands and terraces, had seen a man whom it is doubtful if everi Budge
could beat.
has
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AUSTIN WINS QUICKLY 'Austin's match against A. Lacroix
no history. It was... Just pleasant 40 minutes', exercise for Hare saved the first match point | Austin and for the spectators, in the 9th game with a cannon-ball, who perhaps felt relief that strokes but the second time he volleyed could be made and points won by Henkel's acutely-angled return into quiet methods as well as by titanic the net, and the German had won services and smashes that almost a thrilling-match.
broke the ball. Lacroix's 'descent COUNTESS'S POPULAR VICTORY was progressive: he won two games Miss M'Ostrich started well in the first set, one in the second, against Countess de la Valdene, and none at all in the third. For a better known to Wimbledon-goers player of his undoubted class to be` |by her maiden name as Senorita able score three aces in all-in
d'Alvarez. The English girl, who seven
successive --games was as-
is left-handed, captured the first tonishing; but when you have an game against the service, but after opponent who never puts a foot that her steadiness was of little wrong, you must resign yourself to avail against the Countess's beau- the inevitable.
tiful effortless driving. Running her Austin was travelling fast about opponent from side to side, the the court, making his drives on the French girl advanced to 4-1.
run, and finishing the rallies with Miss M'Ostrich very nearly neat. volleys which left Lacroix doubled the pace of her drive to pull yards away from them. Every now up to 4-all, but the Countess took and then the Belgian would put în the next two games for the first set a crashing volley or a drive too fast at 64. She dropped only two even for Austin to get to; but these games in the second set and was flashes were
were few and far between. playing very well indeed.
The neat finality with which Austin SCINTILLATING TENNIS parried nearly. every thrust, how- Von Cramm played scintillating ever powerful, of Lacroix- was tennis when taking the first set charming to watch. He was not without losing a game from Mako. out brutally to murder his oppon- The German
almost as
if he was driving, fluently ent. it seemed on both wings, intermingling this wished "to dispose of him quite with a mixture of drop shots and painlessly; but his methods were drop volleys whenever the American delightfully effective. endeavoured to pass him. The
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smashed his way like a man to the reached deuce in the fourth set at 6-3 amid roars of applause. he could not take Henkel's The fourth set began in a tense At 2-all the German broke silence. Could Hare keep up this after Hare had put an untakeable form? There were groans when he smash inches over the side line,
lost his service in the first game, The Englishman volleyed as well as and Henkel, playing steadily in the ever to hold his service in the 7th crisis, went to 2-love. The English-game, but his ground strokes were man, still volleying superbly, pulled letting him down.
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