TENNIS

Hokitika Guardian, 23 August 1929, Page 5

TENNIS

(Uoited Press Association.—By Electrio Telegraph.—Copyright.) ' (Received this day at 11.25. a.m,) 1 NEW YORK, August 22. At Forest Hills, Mrs Mallory defeated Betty Nuthall 6-3, 6-3; Helen Jacobs defeated Mary Great] (Kansas City) 6-2, 6-2. At Newport, Tilden defeated Mercer 6-1,.3-5, 6-3, 6-4. Coen defeated Dericou (France) 6-0, 6-1 j 6-4. Lott defeated Berkeley Bell 6-4, 2-6, 6-3, 6-8, 6-2. Vnnvyn eliminated Afistin 4-6, 6-4, 7-5, 6-3. NEW YORK, August 22. At Forest Hills in the women’s double quarter-finals, Mrs Cbvell and Mrs Shepherd Barrow (England) * tie-' feated Mrs Chapin- and Marjorie Gladman 6—o, 6—l. Betty Nutball and Helen Jacobs defeated Misses Sarah and Miaune Palfrey (Brookline) 6—3, B—6. Mrs Micheil and Miss Phoebe Watson (England) defeated Miss Wightman and Marjorie Morrell 6—l, 6—3. Tn. the women’s, singles/ Mrs Watson defeated Miss Cross, T and Miss Wills defeated Mrs Micheil (scores missing). .Iti the first three games of the; first set Mrs Micheil took only three points and. was simply overwhelmed by the terrific driving of Miss Wills.. The. second set was a virtual repetition of the first and the match took only twenty-two minutes. .

Mrs WVsnn’s superbly earned .victory over Miss Cross was a demon-, strntion of a player holding off against an opponent whose forcing shots were 1 driviug iher ,iritb, errors and then returning .to, take a victory, on her own terms. The English woman lost the .first set und-er an attack which she seemed unablq "to weather, but in f the ( sebbif;l settled down to. a display of accuracy which gained her six . games in: a row' arid, left her: opponent wearv.. • Although , Mrs • Watson was behind, in the finql set her opponent was excessively tirqdj and was unable t° deni with her aecurate, pace,, apd the English Ijroman won'out in the last fonttgaipes. •-, Mrs Mallory^,. victory i oyer Mi3B Nuthall. was as.-'sfciisatiqnal ■ns it was, u'nexpectetj. The'. American.. setti ngl :a; terrific pace overcame,. the English girl'"in (ihe surprising .'short time of • thirty-eight' minutesj, ►; In a..- match that teemed with* the longest and the most breath taking* rallies, .she raked her opponent with foreuand and backhand drives kept Miss Nuthall running defensively along her base line, or > retreating disastrously before balls at her* feet, if • sheadvanced- to meet them. Mis* Nuthall ip tho ’ second set stqod 40-30 in the , ninth game and for . . a moment seemed likely to stave off defeat, but Mrs Mallory, was driving fiendishly and settled the match in the last and longest of the- rallies.