PAILS BEATEN BY GIANT FRENCHMAN

Chronicle (Levin), 3 July 1946, Page 3

PAILS BEATEN BY GIANT FRENCHMAN

Press Assn .

W . — SENSATIONS AT WIMBLEDON

By Telegraph

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LONDON, July 1. Dinny Pails, the No. 1 seeded player, , was the eentre oi two sensations at ; VViinbledon today. The first was his late arrival and Ihe seooud his defeat ^ at the hands of the giant Fronchinan : Y von Petra. Pails c'ould not be fotmd when he ' was due to make his eentre court appearance, and unothor match was ' substitutcd. Pails arrived half an hour late. He explained that he thought he had left the Kotel in plenty of time and travelled to Wimbledon by train. The referee had announced his deeision I not to scrateh the Australian. The j tournament eommiftee aeeepted Pail's cxplanation of the reason for his late- . ncss. j . Petra, playing his usual. preciso, ' ehessboard-iike tennis, repeatedly pass- ' ed Pails as the Australian tried to ( take the net. The Frenchman's terrifie j eannonbail serx'iec troubled Pails who j was unable to break through it. Petra ; sorved live aces in three games in the ILrst set. Pails fought baclc strongly ■ in each set and in the third won the last three games to take tlie set. ' Pails, howevor, was not in his best ; form and Petra, eontinuing to scrve ' nuiny aees and driving in grcat fashr ion, won tho match. | Drobny, who is now favourod to win -the title, showed all the ,paticnce and determination, that enabled him to beat Kramer in his eentre court match ; ugainst. Pellizza. The Czechoslovakiun was more eonsistent than the Frenchriuin and' mado fewer crrors. ILe had an unswor to every chaiionge and won j the match in 55 minutes. The -Anierican Tom Brow n was too j eonsistent in long bascline duels in his ! match aguinst Franjo Puncec, of YugoI slavia, and tho Australian (leoff Brown defeated tlie Bwede L. Bergclin in a game contested at a very l'ast pnco. , Both iuen served with tcrriiic specd ; itnd liit balls -on tho forehand in slusliing l'ashiou. Kysults wero: —

j Men's Singles. | (.^uarter-linaJs: Petra beat Pails, 7 — 5, ( 7—5, (5 — 8, ti — *1; Drobny beat Pellizza, j G — 4, 0^—4, 6 — 1; Tom Brown beat * Puncec, G — -2, 8 — 6, G — 4; Geoil Brown ; beat Bergclin, 13 — 11, 11 — 9, G — 4. Women 's Singles. j Fourth rouud: Miss Curry beat Mlle. ' Kuffargue, G — 3, 6 — 3; Miss Betz beat I Aliss Cooper, G— 1, G — 0; Miss Osborne | beat Mrs. Hilton, 6 — 1, G — 1; Aliss i Brough beat Miss H alford, G — 1, G — 3; t Miss Bundy beut Miss Nuthall, G— 3, j G— 2; Miss liart boat Aliss Harris, |G— 8, G— 2, 6— 2. I Men's Doubles. i Third round: Batty and Segura beat I Barton and Paish, • G — 2, 5 — 7, 5 — 7, 1 8— G, 6 — 1; Alitic and Pallada beat : Oaska and Drobny, 2 — G, 9 — 7, 7 — 5, 2 — G, G — 4; Kramer and Tom Brown beat Siba and Vodicha, G — 2, 6 — 1, G — 2.