LAWN TENNIS

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 71, 20 September 1930, Page 23

LAWN TENNIS

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DOEG U.S.A. CHAMPION

TILDEN BEATEN

VISITING PLAYERS EARLY

ELIMINATED

Tlio national singles .championship of the United States of America has been won and lost, and one can imagine what a rejoicing -there will be in the house of Bundy, for ' the champion, is John Hope Doeg, a nephew of T. C. and Mrs. Bundy, nee-Miss May Sutton. Doeg, who will be twenty-two years of age this coming December, was born in Mexico. He showed promise in 1927, when he -won the Longwood Bowl, and last year won the national doubles championship .of the United States with G. M. Lott... He also reached the scmi-fiiial of the national singles championship, where he was beaten after a good fight, -1-6, 6-2, 2-6, 6-1, 6-3, by Tilden. Last year he was ranked No. 7 iii the world's "first ten." At this year's Wimbledon tournament Doeg showed his worth with the following wins:—First round: Beat N. Sharpe, 6-3/ 6-1, 4-6", 4-6, .6-1. Second round: Beat Delia Porta, 6-3, 6-1, 6-2. Third round: Beat Boussus, 5-7, 6-1, 12-14, 6-0, 6-2. Fourth round: Beat David, 6-3, 6-3, 6-1 (David had beaten Crawford, Australia, 6-2, 6-3, 3-6, 6-4, in the previous round). Fifth round: Beat G. S. Mangin, 6-3, 1-6, 6-3, 6-4; but in the semi-final Doeg went down to Wiliner Allison, 6-3, 4-6, 8-6, 3-6, 7-5. "With a shade of luck going his way Doeg might have won either the thir(J. or fifth sets,, but his defeat prevented him from meeting Tilden in the.final. The writing almost appeared on the . wall last year that this young player would make Tilden sit up in future, and it has come to pass, for he defeated Tilden in this year's semi-final after a great match, 10-8, 6-3, 3-6, ,12-10; 31 games to 27. By his iviii Doeg stopped Tilden getting his eighth -win in the national championship singles. \As it is tho veteran ranks with E. D. Sears and W. A. Laniard with seven wins each. Visitors Beaten. Tho visiting players from England and Ireland were all-out by the end of the fourth round, and it can be seen that the United States ( is the only, nation that has ;an abundance of young players up to Davis Cup standard. Sidney B. Wood (New York) beat W. F. Coen (Kansas City), 6-2, 1-6, 6-1, 6-1. The latter player is 19 years of age. G. L. Rogers, the Irish giant, beat'H. E. Vines (Pasadena), 4-6, 4-6, 6-4, 6-1, 6-4. Sidney B. Wood recently beat Vines at the Seabright invitation tournament in a sensational fashion. Vines had defeated F. T. Hunter and F. Shields in the metropolitan championship a week earlier,, and had done so because he thrived off speed and 'opposed it with speed of his own. Wood, knowing that Vines court|ed speed all the time, simply pushed I the ball-softly over the net, and had his opponent puzzled from start to I finish with soft stuff. • H. G.N. Lee (England) had an easy win from Jerry Lang. (New York). > T. S. Oliff (England) did likewise to Keith Werner | (Los Angeles). G. S. Mangin beat J. F. Hennessey, both of the ' United States. 6-2, 6-0; 1-6, 6-2. The latter in 1927 defeated Cochet in the fourth round of the United.. States singles championship. He was also a Davis Cup representative against the British Isles in 192j, but has not shone of late.. W. L. Allison put. out B. Murphy (New York), 4-6, 6-1, 6-3, 6-3 and B, B. Bell beat E. Lewis (New York), 6-1, 6-4, 13-11. F.J. Perry (England) beat E. jJacobs (Baltimore), 6-2, 6-3, 6-8; and F. T. Hunter beat E. B. Avory (Eng-

land), 4-6, 813, 6-2, 6-2.- In > the'fourth, round Young America won all the wavj Van Ryn boat Perry, 4-6, 6-3,; 6-4, 6-1; Shields beat Allison (s-4, 4-6/6:?,.>1-6, 6-3. (Allison will be 26 years of;age in December.) Clifford Sutter: (Lntercollegiate champion) beat Bell, 7-9,/6-4, 6-1, 2-6, 8-6; Mangin beat jOliff, \«-3, 6-3, 10-8; and Wood beat= S. ■ Gilpin, 6-3, 6-2, 6-3. ' • ' . ' .. ■ ' Tilden and. Hunter . both';1 wos^-thes former putting Rogers (Ireland)'out, 6-4, 6-1, 6-2. The fourth. round ; sa^ Hunter go down to Doeg, ll^lS, 6-4. 3-6, 6-2, 6-4;' but TUdenbeat>Van By^, 4-6, 6-2, 6-4, 6-4. Shields beat'Mangic, 3-6, 6-8, 6-2, 6-1, 6-1; and Wood'.bea* Sutter, 6 : 4, 6-3, 2 : 6/7-5. The-Wiia»ni are all colts except, of, course, tL.~ »ld war horse Tilden. His -taste s of; defeat came in the semi-final, where -he}met Doeg, but the latter won in-four sets, 10-8, 6-3, 3-6, 12-10; on the other side* Shields beat Wood, 6-2, 6-3.f4-6.6-3.: . The Final. _ , , .. The final was a great fight, Doeg.trfa*. ning 10-S, 1-G, 6-4, 16 : 14,-. 33 games to 32. It was a case of the Western "Coast against Eastern, and, although; the 'New, Yorker put up a great .fight, .the ,Cali» fornian youth was just too good. : Thaj results show that there . is '_■ very,; littla between quite a number of tthe' United States players, and ..the of ivhat is really the best team is no easy matter. Ranking is a shade.easier.,as data is the guide, but there is-always a difference of opinion even in that. Tilden made a' big bid to-secure his eighth win in the national ' championships, and after his great-performances in Europe and at Wimbledon-.,few? expected him to lose in his own country, but youth will be served, and-Doeg's dashing game, combined with his pow> ers of endurance, were toov much; f 015 Tilden's experience and court, craft. Nevertheless the old champion has ;had a great season, and .he would ;be' the first to congratulate youth; on'its great victory. ■ Argentina. ■■ '.■■'.; Quite a lot has been heard: of lat^ about a change <6f Government'in the Argentine, .but such things : ar,e sqoa forgotten in that country.: This:month, the New Zealand Association 'received an invitation to send a.team to .compete in the southern zone of America .for the Davis Cup.. The matches ..were, to bo played in the Argentine,-but i.the invitation could. not.be.accepted;-:6reat Britain is sending a team composed of Mrs. P. Holcroft-Watson, Misa'fE. H. Harvey, and Messrs. E.-C. -Peters, P. J. Perry, and H. G.^ T .~ Lee,.-to-tour the_ Argentine, where ;the ■team ;will arrive in October.. .-.'■,. .-. i Scottish Championships. - , r In the Scottish championships', played last July, I. G. Collins, -who visited iNow Zealand %vith the; British.team in, 1928, was beaten by «JV Crawford (Sydney) in the semi-final, 6-4, 6-4. Dr. Gregory^ another member of the 19281 British team, beat E. P. Moon- (Queensland)/ 6-1, 6-3. The final.wasrdivided. In the final of the women's .singles Mrs. E. Robertson, nee Miss Esna" Boyd, champion of Australia -in 1927, was beaten by Miss Winnie Mason, a ;nine-teen-year-old Glasgow girl, 3-6, 6-3, .6-3. Mrs. Robertson was hard-worked-ontha last day afc Peebles, for when she- finished the match in the ladies'- singles' she had played her fifth 'mateh5 of'1 thq day, and her 112 th game. Mrs. Robertson and Miss Trentham divided; the ladies' doubles with Misses Watson'arid Barr, and she with Crawford also;divided the mixed doubles with W. A.:R. Collins and Miss Watson. The men's doubles final was divided: between the Collins brothers and Gregory and Scovcll. The name of ColKna reminds the writer that the two brothers had the hard luck to meet in,the first round of the singles,at Wimbledon* --W.--A. R. won, 6-2, 6-4, 1-6, 6-4. In.the cases where, championships were./divided it was done because of a time-limit,being set to the tournament, and' it was: imi possible to play out any1 of. the finals, ', except the ladies' singles. In each case the honour and the. prize .were'divided between those who-reached *th« finals. ■ ■•■' -.;,■ ■■-.'■;--'