THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, ∙1934.
ENGLISH WONDER TENNIS PLAYERS RISE TO
REFLECTIONS ON THE
FINAL TEST
(Continued from Page 8.)
couragement did not take him further on Saturday Inst.
any
Jagain dropped-this time by Woolley in the lips. Thereafter runs came much as they liked. With 250 up two maro chances were dropped-by Wyatt at mid-off and by Woolley at second alp. It seems they were both dlf. Turning to Saturday's play, Wood- full went a long way towards wineuit, but facts are facts.
LUCK OF TQSS.
was not out 205 and had been dropped
GAME WON IN 49 GREAT HEIGHTS
SECONDS
AMAZING FRED PERRY
THE STOP-WATCH AT WIMBLEDON
ning the match when he won the Ponsford, at the end of the day, toa. The wicket seems to have been
Mr. H. M. Abrahams, the dis- very fast und true. The Oval xin
Athletic ay it will inst out the match, which five times by England's Test team! tinguished Cambridge in ordinary circumstances is probably Bradman, who, as far as one can make Blue and Olympic Games runner, correct. But if the game goes to ve out, had not been dropped at all, has favoured us with a remarkable ur six days I am not so sure about played a most brilliant innings of 244, set of figures on the final of the Woulfull is. I think, developing and the stand for the second wicket men's singles championship be 'Brown as Australia's opening bats- man. He himself is almost certainly of 451 is a record all round, so far tween F. J. Perry and J. H. Craw- playing in his laat series of tesis asus Test matches are concerned.
ho is thirty-seven on Wednesday next, and has, if I remember
retirement.
correctly,
ford at Wimbledon, states Laron Tennis and Badminton. With the nid of stop-watch he took the
", As regards the second wicket It
times of each of the games, from already announced his approaching beats the previous best of England and the hitting of the first service until Australia, 296 by Macartney and Ponsford may go on for some time Woudfull at Leeds in 1926. It may the last point of each game had
been decided. he is not yet thirty-four, though remembered that in that match
SET) I have at the back of my mind an idea that he has suggested that he Bardsley was caught by Sutcliffe in Game. Server.
Crawford, & min. 7 sec.--Won by-Cew too will be leaving the gane soon, the slips-Wieden saya ko, anyway--- Anyway, Brown and Ponsford opened off the fest ball of the match, and
-Perry, 4.r.-Wus by -I imagine to Allen and Bowes and Macartney was dropped off the Afth a change of bowling at twenty-Wyatt ball of the same over. was evidently using his shock troops bowler. Then they put on 235-after; met with instant success as Clarke the English skipper had put down ni pushed back Brown's off peg with his catch. A bit of a coincidence. fifth ball.
SUCCESS ENDS.
oniled. The But there AUCCESS century was hoisted and here came the Ineldent, or incidents, which probably will loso the match. Allen was bowling, Ponsford was Bfty-seven and
Tale was the
OTHER STANDS.
The next biggest Test stand was
321 by Hobbs and Rhodes for the first wicket, at Melbourne in 1911-12.
v,
Πιστό
PERFECT DISPLAY IN DAVIS CUP
How The Americans Were Nonplussed
The following contributions from the pen of Mr. H.
S. Scrivener, describing the first matches of the Davis Cup challenge round, appeared in the London Morning Post. They give brilliantly vivid accounts of the epic struggles between Perry and Wood and Shields and Austin.
To nothing can the old English say- Incored with three more while going to ing, "well begun is half done, be 2-1. But he was foot-faulting, and more appositely applied than to the Perry got a fairly easy 1-2 lead first day's play in a Davis Cup tie against the service, which he should when one of the two competing nu-have held. But hereabouts he was Lions wins both the opening singles, making a mistake. It was obvious This was the position in which Great that Wood could hold him in a base- Britain, defending the Cup in the line duel and generally win the rally, Challenge tie against America, found and, moreover, that Wood was getting
-Crawford, 1 min. 12. mies herself thanks to her two leading on quite nicely at the net if he could
Crawford.
戒
min. 18.2 c.--Won
28.8 sec.-Wan 1.Perry, I min. 3. src-Won by Perry, -Crawford, 3 min, 25 c-Won by Perry. Ar-Perry, min. 14.8 Won by Pen:
Crawford, 68 sne-Wan by Petty. tangent mes 5 min. 7 sec. Sharles: 19,8
four games took 13 min. 18. x,
SET Z
LV'erry,
Crawford: 6.-Erawford. I min.
Perry.
next Ave 9 min. 29.4 wec.
|
an
singles players, II. W. Austin and get there first. But Perry, although F. J. Parry, who won their matches he had shown in the first ret that with F. X. Shields and 8. B. Wood he could attack Wood with profit, was respectively, the former by 6-4, ignoring all these signs and portents 1, and the latter by 6-1, 4-6, and allowing Wood practically to call 6-7, 6-0, 6-3.
the tune. That la the main reason Shields was certainly not playing his why he dropped his servies to make sort of Richard Coeur de Lion gema the scoro 39, and dropped it again
Saturday. This, no doubt, was to put Wood out at 6. partly his own fault for failing to keep The third set was also Wood's. down his errora; but I am sure that This was rather a hectie business; but Austin- unlike Mr. Illarius in "La the solemn fact emerges that Perry Poupee" had also a good deal to do getting the service lead-2-0, 8 with it. When a man's defensive play (in spite of several fine cannon balls in ne kood na Austin's; when he can by Wood), and 4 to 0. Hore was hit the ball with precision to a place his chance to win the match on his kupt on opposite court where the own service if he had forced the pace; Tangent game, min. see. Shortest opponent cannot take liberties with but he let it go. Two easy volleys [it (oven though it be not hit ex-missed and a double fault, and there 96.
ceptionally hard), and when he can we were at 6-5. Wood, on his own. --Wan by Terry launch an attack and carry it out with service, nando It 6-6, and Perry then are-Won by the right instinct and the requisite helped him to the set by serving two
skill, then he is playing a powerful doubto faults. Nah then! -Won by Perry and a point-winning game. 112 are.-Won by
Turning to all Arst-class cricket, the only bigger etands I can find are (1) | Game, Serveți
Perry, 1 min. 22 sec-Wow by Perry. -Crawford 2 mn. 2 Won by Perry. he was dropped twice by Wyatt, at 556 by Holmes and SutelifTe for York-
-Perry, 60.6 sec.--Wos by Perry. forward short leg and at fine leg. 1 shire v. Essex at Leyton in 1982; (2)
Crawford, 1 min, & see-Wan by Very gathered from the wireless that he 4 by J. T. Brown and Tunnicliffe
Yorkshiro
5.-Perry, min. 44 sec-Won by Perry, Derbyshire at enuld only just get his hand to one for
4-Cranford, 1 min. 264 are.-Won
Perry. enteh, it that the second though Chesterfield in 1808 (I can clearly tremendously hard was straight at remember as a small boy reading that him. There are the chances that win rore in the newspaper!) (3) 40 by or lose matches. Incidentally it re- Bowley, and John Langridge for minds me of a large notice that uned Sussex v. Middlesex at Hove in 1933: team and 4) 450 by 5. R. Mayne and to be displayed in the homo changing room in the Pavilion on the W. H. Ponsford for Victoria v. old Inatow ground.
Queensland at Melbourne in 1023-4. This is then, the Bfth biggest stand on record.
ЗЕТ 3.
Perry 1 min. 17.4 Gerver,
2-ww Ford, 1 min. 5
Crawford. 3.-Terry, mln. 47
Oh you players of North Devan. If you wish to go to Heaven, And to win your blooming matches You must hold
No bowling analysis has been cabled መቸም blooming
so far as I am aware at the time of cutches,"
elear that the brunt writing but it word was At least, I think the
has fallen upon the fast bowlers, "blooning." After that things slowed down until Allen, Clark and Bowes, as the wicket lunch with 100 up. At this period not suit Verity, Unfortunately, It only four extras were recorded. It seems only too certain that Hammond was bad luck on Wyatt. He has field will have had to do a lot of trundling ed brilliantly before, but every man as well, and it is not going to help 53 has his off day.
his batting! I feel sure that his lack of form with the bat in Teats this year is due in part to the fact that he has been called upon to do so much more bowling than heretofore. Well, well. To-morrow is also a day!
DROPPED CHANCES.
After lunch, Bradman got going but with thirty runs scored, Ponsford was
Crawford, 1 min, Crawford.
Perry, min. 1. G-Crawford, 2 min,
Crawford.
c.--Won by Perry. 24.4 sec. Won by
by
1.Perry, 63 sec-Won by Perry. *~Crawford. 2 min. # ce. Pian
Crawford. D-1'erry, 1 min. 50 .-Wan by Crawford, 10.Crawford: 3 min. 40.6 xer-Won by 11-Ferry, min. 24 sec.-Won by Perry, Crawford, 2 min, 49 sec.-Wan l'erry. Longest game 3 min, 40.6 107.
sec.
Perry.
SUMMARY.
First set 22 min. 50 sec. Becond set 8 min. 29 sec. Third el, 24 min. 7.6 wer. Match: 5 min. 16.0 cc.
Look 19 min. 8 we
SHIELDS' WEAK POINT.
PERRY UP AND AT HIM.
When they came back after the ten That was Austin's game on Satur- minules interval, Perry had, I think, day. Shields chief weakness lay in been giving himself some good service. his backhand, which was tintrust Possibly someone else had done it for worthy, whether in attack or defence, him; hut at any rate it was the right and you may be sure that Austin any advice and be there and then proceed. to it that he got plenty of back-ed to give effect to it. "Hit and run handers. Austin's backhand, on the "in" is"a splendid recipe if you are other hand, was practically invulner- fresh enough, especially if you don't Shortestable, and often. he would ding back a want Wood to run in first, and it pass which, even if it did not bent worked like a charm. After the Arst Shields outright; would cause him to few games had gone against him topple, and miss his volloy. It is to Wood virtunily, let the fourth set go. Shioids' credit that he blazed away He was not out to do any catching up, lustily with bls slams from start to but just tried to make his service Perry's sequence of 12 mesin finish, failing with them too often, but come on the opening game of the Bith
alwavs hoping for the best.
set, and succeeded. However, as 150 It soon became evident that the con- often happens when these strategie titions were not good; there was a "chuckings" are toward, the chucker boisterous wind which eddied about a failed to gain what he hoped for. lot and sometimes raised clouds of Three games went against the ser dust on the dried-up court. Of course,vice and then Perry held his service. it had quite a curious effect on lobs for 3-1 and, after a tense struggle for and sometimes made those that looked the fifth, game, during which Wood easy really difßeult. Austin won pulled him back once from the gants Shields' service to start with and held point to deuce, he got it and clinched his lead up to 3-2, although Shields it, winning his own service to follow was twice vantage against the service for 6-1 to love. It seemed all over, In the fourth game. "However, he got but Woud won his service, though another chance against the service in hard pressed, thanks to a lovely back- the sixth game and clinched.it..helped hand pass and then, Perry squandered by a meteorder.
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A SUDDEN BREAK.
his service mainly owing to an egregi ous double fault. Howevor the stra had now become a bit too much for Wood, and Ferry in the next game, by So they went to 4-4, and then running him about all over the place, Austin quite suddenly broke through won his match point on a backhander for with a love game, and was which Wood banged into the net. out on his own service for 6-4 to 15. This was an affair of two hours, Shields hanging a forehander, un
which he was advancing, into the net and the only further comment I have make is that it seemed to me to to nikh with.
In the second ret, there seemed to emphasise the fact that the footfault ulo is extremely dificult to ad- rocks ahead for Austin when Shields broke through him for 4-2 minister fairly and politely.
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410-40, and then brought of a-crush-rowd which was of record size for ing drive. However, Austin coolly re. England, taliated by taking Shields' service to love, and it is pertinent to record that ofter this Shields only got one more game, This was the third of the in the third set, which he saved, valiantly, from 0-40 down. While the third wet was in progress, our thoughts naturally recurred to their encounter in the championships, when Shields pulled the match round from two nets down. But it did not happen
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Saturday, though there periods when Perry was also making things distinctly hard for himself. Perry strikes me as much better at an uphill, fight than at pressing an advantage home. But I am bound to add that, but for this little defect, The played admirably,
AFTER THE INTERVAL. -
I think, he rather threw away the third set the set which ought not to be let go, if it can be avoided, where there is a. ten, minutes' interval; but, fortunately for him, this did not matter; he came back after that{ interval ready to exert the requisite pressure to turn the match round; exoried it right away to cause one
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