AUSTRALIAN FAILURE

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 49, 26 August 1933, Page 13

AUSTRALIAN FAILURE

CRAWFORD AND M°GRATH

AMERICAN PAIR WINS

United Press Association—JJ.v Electric Teiograpli— Copyriehl(Received August 26, noon.) NEW YORK, August 25. • In the opening quarterfinals of the United States national tennis championship doubles at Long-wood, Lott and Stocffcn (U.S.A.) defeated Jack Crawford and V. McGrath (Australia), 6-2, 7-5, 7-5. Shields and Frank Parker (Milwaukee) defeated Perry and Wilde (Britain), 0-2, 6-1, 3-6, 7-5. The Australians made a decidedly bad start, both losing their jservico and permitting Lott and Stoeffen to amass a 4-0 lead. McGratli's double-handed backhands, were driving the ball yards out, while Crawford found his opponents' returns placed at his feet. The Australians won only five points against the Americans' seventeen in these games. The Australians recovered in the fifth game from 30-40. They then saved the set in the seventh game when it stood at 30-40 against them, but gave over in the eighth game at a love score, Lott's and Stoeffen's strokes being steady as against the constantly erroneous play of McGrath and Crawford. LACKADAISICAL PLAY. In the second set there was something lackadaisical in the Australians' play. They just seemed unable to make their strokes come off. McGrath finally won his first service of the match in the third game to make the score 2-1 against the Australians, but only after allowing their opponents to deuco in that third game from 30-40. The Americans were decidedly in form and gradually increased their lead to 3-2. There was an opportunity for the Australians to even the score in the sixth game, when-they stood ahead at 40-30 on Stoeffen's service, but the series of trick net-cord shots helped to pull the Americans out to lead 4-2. Th* same opportunity was' offered the Australians in the eighth game, when again they stood at 40-30 on Lott's service, but they were too inaccurate. They, however, won tho ninth game to love and in a brilliant spurt, accounting for Stoeffen's service with their placements, won the tenth game, evening the score at 5-all. This was the first important break in tho American's winning streak, and boded well for the Australians. Un 1 fortunately the latter almost immediately lapsed into short driving, the Americans running out tho set in the next two games, taking the last to love. In the third set the Australians' game had unquestionably improved, and they wero terminating some exceptionally splendid rallies with winning points, but the Americans, by accounting for McGrath's service, amassed a 3-2 lead. Stoeffcn, at:this point, was proved the weak link, i Tho Australians pounded his service with unroachable returns to even the score at 3-all, and for the first time-in the match went into the lead at 4-3, which they promisingly increased to 5-4. It was, however, a brief bid for power. Crawford's nets in the eleventh game reversed tho positions of the teams and the Americans went in the lead at 0-5. It was the end. The Americans took the twelfth game handily on Lott's service. Lott and Stocffen won.largely by concentrating against McGrath, who-e twofisted backhand collapsed under the heavy fire of the United States sluggers. McGratli's errors enabled Lott and Stoeffen to gain the opening set in less than fifteen . minutes' play, as MiGrath fluffed fourteen of seventeen chances coming his way. In the eight games he piled up fourteen nets and three outs and committed a double fault. He scored only thre points. It is announced that the other quarterfinals match, in which tho Australians are participating, is postponed until tomorrow. The semi-finals will be played on Monday and the finals on Tuesday.