TENNIS VISITORS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 57, 23 March 1937, Page 14

TENNIS VISITORS

— Press Associtition.l

Australian Cup Team ai Auckland UNORTHODOX BROMWICH

(By TeloRraph-

AUCKLAND, Last Night. Considered to comprise one of the strongest teams the Commonwealth has produced a,nd outstanding contenders for Davis Cup honours the Australian tennis players J. H. Crawford, V. B. •McGrath, A. K. Quist and J. Bromwich, who arrived in Auckland by the Niagara to-day, delighted a crowd of about 300 with a series of brilliant exMbitioa. imatches at the Stanley street courts. I'The team which is en route to the '■United* States to .play in the American zone, is accompanied by Mr. C. E.: Sproule as manager. 8alient features of the exhihition ,play were tlie'polished and conndent imethods of Crawford, the vicious backhand voleys of McGrath, the suhtelty of Quist and the eagerness and unorthodoxy of Bromwich. It was a highly instructive exhibition of tennis attack and defence with players earn|ing frequent applause for finely-angledi shots and placements of more than ord|inary exeellence. i Bromwich attracted considerable lattention when he shaped up to Quist |in the first singles partly in view of the success that has attended his efEorts during his comparatively short career in first-class tennis, but principally because of the Imusual methods he em|ploys. He plays his forehand shots jwith both hands gripping the racquet. He serves with the right hand and uses' the left in playing what would ordinarily be backhand shots. | In the singles Quist beat Bromwich A — 6, 6 — 2, 6 — I and Crawford beat 'McGrath 7 — 5, 7 — 5. In the doubles Bromwich and Quist beat Crawford and iMcGrath 6— —2, 6—2, d 6, 1— — 6, 6— -4.