BUDGE OVERWHELMS PERRY
Quick Defeat In First Professional Meeting
(Received March 12, 6.30 p.m.)
NEW YORK, March 11. In their first professional meeting at Madison Square Garden yesterday Budge overwhelmed Perry, 6-1, 6-3, 6-0. Though Perry was below form, his defeat in 49 minutes was so complete that it seems certain that Budge will prove master in their series of 36 matches.
Budge played superlative tennis and ran Perry, who defeated him by four matches to two as an amateur, mercilessly from corner to corner. Those who expected Perry’s steadiness and guile to puzzle Budge were disappointed. It was Budge’s steadiness and craft that told. Perry never broke through Budge s service but Budge broke through Perry’s seven times. Perry made innumerable errors. He has not played much of late, while Budge has just returned from a tour in which he beat Vines by 22 matches to 17. Perry played brilliantly in spurts, but it was defensive tennis. Budge was so convincing that his claim to world supremacy seems completely established. The gate at Madison Square Garden was only 18,000 dollars, compared with 47,000 for the opening of the Budge-Vines tour on January 3.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 143, 13 March 1939, Page 9
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194BUDGE OVERWHELMS PERRY Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 143, 13 March 1939, Page 9
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