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HANDSOME VICTORY BY ALFRED PERRY

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BRITISH GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP WON BY BRITON

CRITICS CONFOUNDED BY OUTSIDER ON FINAL DAY

"(BY "VAGRANT")

Muirfield, June 28,

Alfred Perry (Leatherhead) won the British Open Golf Championship here to-day with rounds of 69, 75, 67, 72-283. He won handsomely, beating his nearest oppon. ent by four strokes. His win came as a surprise to the majority. It confounded the critics, and was anticipated by very few of his fellow professionala

Perry alone seemed unmoved. He 15th. He played an iron shot to had hitched his wagon to a star, and make one shout of joy at the 16th, driven it with the utmost confidence straight into the face of the wind on through the long four days, finishing the flag all the way. this afternoon with the same jaunty "Here's a ball, lot's hit it" attitude as he'adopts on his own course, playing an unimportant practice round.

There was a brief net-back at the the short 16th, where he nursed green to the left, escaping all major Ho chipped forms of punishment. He was born on October 8, 1904, boldly up and got a four. From the to short rough to the left he crashed a and was for a while intant Jamos Braid at Walton Heath. In scaring spoon shot home to the back that year and the next he won the of the 17th for another four, and no the many ile wax came to the 18th with Assistants Championship. Surrey open champion in 1931 and thousands now leoping the fairway 1933, runner-up in the "News of the and finishing in a black mass round World Tournament in 1932, and the green. finished thini

the Southport Tournament in 1933, when he won his place in the Ryder Cup team. His Kreaient asset in his mobility, due to admirable footwork which is probably

CONGRATULATIONS

Two great bangs straight down the middle and ten yards short of the pin

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FOURTH TEST

ENGLAND ALL OUT FOR

357 RUNS

ROBINS SCORES CENTURY

London, July 27.

MONDAY, JULY

ENGLAND WINS BOTH SINGLES

DAVIS CUP TIE AT WIMBLEDON

HOLDERS REVEAL BEST FORM

London, July 27. Fred J. Porry, the Wimbledon The woather was dull and throaten- ing when the Fourth Test match com-champion, and H. W. (Bunny) Austin menced at Old Trafford, Manchester; won their first round matches to give today. A crowd of 5,000 saw Wyatt England the lead over America lathe win the toss and send England in to Challenge Round of the Davis Cup

bal.

The wicket was described by the

groundsman ar fast, but sweating, which factor might cause trickiness

early in the match.

J. C. Clay (Glamorgan) emitted from the English side, while 1. J. Siedle, who is suffering from

Tomlinson and kave trouble, Balatka were dropped from South African team, Williams being the twelfth man.

the

The English team was composed of K. E. S. Wyatt (Captain), R. W. Robbins (Middlesex), W. E. Hammond (Gloucestershire), M. Leyland (York- shire), H, Verity (Yorkshire). W. Barber (Yorkshire), A. M. Bowes Yorkshire), D. Smith (Derbyshire) M. W. Tate (Sussex), A. H.

Duckworth Northan

The South African team was as follows: H. F. Wado (Captain), H. C. E. L. Dalton, E. A. B. Rowan, R. J. Cameron, B. Mitchell, A. D. Nourse,

and A. B. C. Langton

Scores follow.

and

G.

Competition played to-day,

Austin defeated the strong Ameri- can challenger Wilmer Allison in a gruelling-five-set match, the scores being 6-2 2-0, 4-6, 6-3, 7-5 in his favour, and Perry accounted for the

youthful Donald Budge in a four-set duel by scores of 6-0, 6-8, 43, 0-4.

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Beats Dorothy Round

(Continued from Page 8). Jedrzejowska. Let us not forget that Mile. Jedrzejowska (unseeded), *** the conqueror of Mrs. Whittingstall (likewise unaoedod), who was the con- queror of Miss Scriven, seeded No. 7, that Miss Jacobs' task was no light one. She nevertheless made light of it more or less in the first set because the Polish girl was for the time being

unable to combat her artless-looking

but really insidious game.

Miss Jacobs won a 6-1 first set and reached 4-2 in the second before Mlle.

back, but she then actually went ahend to b4 and 6-5 loads until Miss Jedrzejowska was really able to hi

Jacobą rose, as it were, in her wrath and went from 7--7 to with the loss of only one more ace.

WOMEN'S SINGLES

FIFTH ROUND

AUSTIN'S PLUCKY DISPLAY

gave a very plucky display Austin after trailing Allison by one set to two. Denefitting by the ten-minute interval after the third set, he played inspired tennis which roused the crowd of 14,000 to fover pitch.

Austin opened very stylishly, lob Round 10.1. noesinated), 643 bing dead on to the baseline. The crowd gasped at his daring shota. He quickly led by four games to one and polished off the set by conceding an- other game.

In the second set, Austin maintain- an immaculate length, but Allison became more aggressive, varying the pace and length of his shots and going Drly- frequently. up to the net more

|_ Mim J. Hartigan (Australia) beat Mlas 17. E Mr. B. Moody (UR.A.) boat me. F Mathieu (France), (--*. #—4.

Mas 31. Jarobs (U.S.A.) beat Mlle. J. Jadras joursis (Poland), em Be

M. 8. perling'(Denmark) beat Miss K. E Blammers (0.B., nominated), 7-8, 7--3.

MEN'S DOUBLES

SECOND ROUND

better than that of any other pro an approach putt three feet short Crisp, A. J. Vincent, K. G. Viljoen ing deep into both corners and pull. Merath and D. P. Turnbull, 7-0, and

fessional.

CLASSIC WRISTS

lie carries his right hand well under the club in the manner of Sandy Herd and Mr. Ball, & method which at first glance appears unorthodox. A study of his wrists shows that these adhero to the classic position.

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heled with the typical lack of hent tancy, hum and clatter of the crowd hushed whilst his partner, Byd Easter brook, holed out for an excellent 71.

on Henry Cotton was across the gen shaking Perry by the hand and patting him on the back,

Padgham, in the meantime, had taken

37 to the turn. Picard, we The placings at the end of the third knew, was over four no one could

champion. round showed that Ferry has dia catch Perry now, and the multitude placed C. A. Whitcombe in the lead, cheered the new

To go back to a quarter to nine returning a 87 to Whitcombo's 72

with a strong westerly wind g'clock WAI only Perry's advantage xtroke. Padgham came next with 210, lashing white horses on the blus Firth of Forth, and turning to shinin rock Picard, the kading American, 217,

Gullans sands whence then Kenyon, Bert Gadd, and Cotton, Per

Whitcombe 218.

How to France. C.A.

with a hard-earned four on a Whitcombe, first away for the fate soild workman-like round of 73., He ful fourth round, made an inauspic- ious start, 6, 4, 5, 4. He pulled his played a strong wooden second from short rough, then pitched up to within tee shot into a bunker at the first and five feet and holed the putt. He dissipated three putts of incalculable value on the third green. He also followed this with 9, 4, 3, and reached Lurn in 37. He had fives at the the missed the green at the short fourth. Then he pulled himself together, ran fifth, where he cut his drive a little on approach pult up dead from 12 and was not home with wood at the yards at the fifth, and played a grand sixth where he pulled an iron. He started home 4, 4, 4, 3, 4, 4, 3, all second to the sixth to get his fours a sound delightful golf, then finished each. Again he faltered, cutting his with two fives. tee shot to the short seventh, missing

Colton, two shots behind with 142, the green with a chip and taking four. Then came a glorious second to was the next to start of those expected the eighth, finishing a foot past the to be in at the death. He was just hole, and with a 6 at the ninth he was short with a low wooden second and, out in 38.

running five feet past the hole, failed

with the return puit. 4, 4, followed

ENGLAND-1st Innings

Bakewell, b Crisp ....... Smith, e Mitchell, b Bell Barber, e Langton, b Bell Hammond, b Crisp ..

R. E. 'S. Wyatt, bw, b Crisp Robins, b Leyland, Mitchell is Crisp Verity, lbw, b Langton Tate, e Viljoen b Vincent Bowes, not out Duckworth, e Nouras h Crisp

Extrax

ing out glorious passing shots he on- nexed the set, losing only two games. In the third act, Allison plerced

M. Bertram and W. Mosgrove beat V. D.

K. C. Gandar Dower and i. I. Wheatcroft beat I. Menzel and 1. fecht, 1--6, 1—8, 6-4, I. G. Goiline and F. H. D. Wilde beat 1 H.

Austin's backhand and led 4-2, win-8. inier and D. It. William, 6-3, 6-4, 6-4. 63ning the set at 64.

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Austin was very confident in the fourth set, and as a result of accurate 29 placements led 3-0, and won the net

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3 at 6-3.

J. H. Crawford and A. K. Quiat beat R. 3. Ritchie and N, Bharpe, 1, 0, G),

Maler and 8, 1, Wood beat A. Hartin Leesy and J. Lesueur, 2-6, 3–6, 6red, Gud, 5-2

THIRD ROUND

D. Budge and G. Make beat Collin

Allison volleying brilliantly led 3-1 108 in the final set, but Austin rallied and wilde, 63, 2, 12—14, 6-4.

16 levelled the scores. Allison

wont

34 ahead and missed match point in the

2 tenth gama by volleying Into the net. Austin recovered and clinched the set

13 after twelve games,

367

Total

Bowling Analysis

M R

W

20

D9

5

26

28

4 85

11 1

0 11

0

Crisp Bell Vincent Langton alltchell

S. AFRICA-IST INNINGS

B. Mitchell, not out .... E. A. B. Rowan, not out

Total, (for no wit,)

PERRY BEATS BUDGE

In the match between Perry and Budge, the former was irresistible in the first set which he won in twelve minutes. After that Budge main- tained an immaculate length on both hands, especially on his backhand with which he scored many outright

attacked the winners. He

champion continually and frequently aced him with his services to win the set.

Perry concentrated on gotting a

WOMEN'S DOUBLES

RECOND ROUND

and

May K. E. Stammen and Miss F. Jamen brat Mr. . A, Chamberlain and Mr. L. G, Chwen, ~9, 6--1, 6-0.

THIRD ROUND

Mme, J. de Meulemeester and Mrs. P. D.

want best Mrs. J. B. Pittman and M A. M. Yorke, 6-4, 6-2, 6-0.

Mme. Mathieu and me. A. Sperang best Me, E. Bellard and Mile. J. Goldschmidt,

-.7-6.

MIXED DOUBLES

SECOND ROUND

H. G. Hapman and Mrs. 11. C. Hopman beat

1. F. David and Mr. J. D. Pitman, 3-5,

2 lead of 3-0 in the third set, which he | 6-3,"

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won with the loss of only three games, W. Musgrove and Min. K. Beatt best F.

and in the fourth set his final drive | Kukuljevle and Mrs. W. G. Lawe, 1--6, 6-3

3 hit the baseline for a glorious winning

puint.

At the age of 69, William Brock- cricketer of the nineties, has died a Richmond, Surrey, Institu-

Budge is considered to be the best seen since Ellaworth Vines won the Wimbledon title in 1931-Reuter.

w. F. Freeman and Mr. W. F. Freeman;

J. W. Austin and Mian A. M. Yorke beat

Gol, Bud

C. R.. Turkey and Minn M. C. Berlven

3-6 -7, 4.-9.

Ho bunkered his tee shot to the 19th,en he wax short to the fourth and well, a noted Surrey and England (19-year-old player Wimbledon has beat (1. 12. 11. Meredith and Mrs. J. A. Kirk, cut his drive into short rough at the took three to get down. He was play. eleventh, only to play delightful pitch and run to within five feet of ing with infinite care, testing the wind in

the hole for 3. He went or 4, 3, 5, 4, with his handkerchief before each tion, following a heart attack.

shot, concentrating with all that com- hocplete oblivion of everything except the

3. There followed two

home,

bad

Three putta at the 17th, after a classic ball and the stroke, which is so mark-seventh pulled up within four feet of iron and a 6 at the eighteenth, ed a feature of his playing progress. followed by a third over the back.

This left him with a round of 76 and

an aggregate of 288 for all his dan

gerous rivals to shoot at,

INTO A BUNKER

But the game would not run for

hin

Leo

14th,

to

CONCEDED NO CHANCE

1. Nishimura and Mim 8, Noel beat F. D. Andrown and Miew J. C. Ridley, 6—1, 5–7, G.

6

34. Hernard and Senorita E. de Alvarez beat D. II. Wia and Mia 8. G. Chuter, 6-1,

Ron and Miss J." Ingram beat 15,' McPhail and Mrs. M. R. King, 6–2, 6--1.

A. K. Quist and Mile, 4. Jedrzejowska beat J. M. Hunt and Mev. E. & Law, bid, Gund.

V. B. McGrath werd Mine 3. Hartigan beat

THIRD ROUND

N. G. Farquharson and Miss R. H. Hardwick beat J. P. G. Lysaght and Mrs. P. Salter- thwaite, 6-2, 7-5.

C. F. Achliman and Min G. A. Clarke- Jervoise beat C. R. Fawcur and Wins M. E

rumb, 7-5, 4-6, B

“A” United Press inessage says that America is conceded virtually no chance of winning the Challenge the hole; he holed a six-yard putt at Round. the eight, and finished a dazzling In the match between Austin and sequence by chipping dead at the 9th. Allison, the latter was within two. W. Butler and Miss J. Baunders, 6-4, 6-4.

On the homeward half he started in points of victory in the tenth game of Cotton was the next to chase him, him and he followed his miner 5, 4, 4, then holed a five-footer for 2 the final set when he muffed an easy and, with

68 needed to win, was out calamity at the short fourth by at the short 13th, took wood to the kill'. in 36. Starting on the last aine with hitting

what inte long

Perry swept to victory against but was short, only run all to win, he cut his second away at bunker at the next. Still, he up to

and courage which stood stand against the Wimbledon cham- in the the eleventh, and fortune, turned her got a good five and played a great that a with mix feet and hole with Budge, who put up a gallant but futil

him in such good stead all day long. pion, who wore a sireater went on to finish in 75 for un aggre. / second alx yards past the pin at the Wood again to the fifteenth, and an- first set. Perry never seemed to be R. Mensel and Slecha E. Cepkorn, 4–8, 41,

sixth. Hin

putt hung on lip. Wa Behind hins came Perry with Like the scurryings of rats in an attic other six-foster bang into the hole. in dificulty throughout the match

But then he wha bunkered, great United Press. shots needed to get round the course that with that refusal of the ball to second hitting the face

there went through my mind Ideas Eu

foot, below to lead Whitcombe and take the title, sink his chance had gone. Had it the top. At the 17th he was just provided no other player behind him sunk I feel it might have started him short with his pult of eight feet. standing brilliance,

By the time he reached the turn it with 3, 4, 6, for 38 out. A cut

However, 4 It was, and he followed hot home from short rough to the left and for his four. For reference in 7 he looked a certain winner. drive to the 10th ended in & then 4, 4. his figures were: 6, 4, 4, 3, 4, 3, 2, 3, 4, Picard, we know, was one over fours, three putts from the bottom of the equals 32 out, 4, 4, 4, 3, 4, 4, 3, 6, 4, approaching the eighth, and a little 4; the Purteenth green to an fron equals 36, tatal 67. later that Padgham had started 5,|

back on her last year's favourite, He

gate of 283.

the

To

accomplished some round of Out-off on one of his pulverising stretches, the eighteenth he thumped a spoon

this with

Mr. Lawson Little finished a most satisfactory inroad on amateur geif

by breaking the record with a 6 for an aggregate of 289. His figures were 4, 4, 4, 8, 3, 4, 4, 4, 5, equals 35 out; 4, 4, 4, 3, 4, 4, 3, 5, 4, equals 34 home; total 69,

Mr. P. B. Lucas with 300 achieved

MIXED DOUBLES TENNIS

Chinese R.C. Due To Meet Holders

4, 5. Perry made a magnificent start pushed out into a bunker, 4, 3, 4, then to his inward half, banging a wooden a booked drive for a final & and a

76. of round shot up four feet from the pin and holing the putt for 3. He followed Padgham started 5, 4, 6, pulling his 4, and then played a wild second to the frat for wide into the

Only one match ía due to be second over the heads of the spec- rough and taking three putts from the He got his 3 at

played in the Mixed Doubles Lawn tators massed round the 12th green. back of the green. But there was no trouble for him the short fourth and reached the turn the envious distinction of being lead-

Tennis League this afternoon.

The Chinese RC., who have not 38 to come home in 36 without ever He played a lovely tee-shot to the being able to hit a brilliant patch. ing British amateur at this his first yet met the U.S.R.C., are to play

ing attempt in the championship. little amphitheatre green at the 18th, In the meantime Perry was going

Towards the end of the field, Padg- the holders this afternoon, around which most of the population! great guns. He started 6, 4, 4, and

The match between the two Kow. of the Lothians had contrived to cram, then followed with 3, 4, 3, 2, 3, 4, to ham, out in 37, touched his best form and got his three. Then came two reach the turn in 32. At the sixth coming home and, with a brilliantly loon C.C. teams, which is also down courageous putts of about 3 yards he put a No. 4 iron shot five yards compiled 34 for a 71, moved up into for to-day was played off

Monday, each to get his fours at the 14th and from the pin; his tee shot to the second place.

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Tucker and Miss Borlven best J. Caska and Mine M. A. Thomas, &~# 4-4, 6-1,

D. P. Turnbull and Skarnerina L. Valerio beat H. G. N. Læs and Miss J. F. Cunningham. BB3, B4.

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