LAWN TENNIS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22985, 14 September 1936, Page 10

LAWN TENNIS

GAMES AT FOREST HILLS NEW YORK, Sept. 11. At Forest Hills, Perry and Budge, and among the women Miss Jacobs and Miss Marble, reached the finals. Under the handicap of a cut finger, Perry encountered considerable difficulty against Grant, but finally won, 6—4, 3—6, 7—5, 6—2. Budge defeated Parker, 6—4, 6—3, 6—3. Miss Jacobs beat Miss Stammers 64, 6—3. Miss Marble defeated Miss Pedersen, 6—l, 6—l. ».• PERRY WINS NATIONAL SINGLES GREAT CONTEST WITH BUDGE FOREST HILLS, Sept. 12 (Received Sept. 13, at 9 p.m.) Perry won the National Singles Championship for the third time today, defeating Budge 2—6, 6—2, B—6, I—6, 10—8 in an exciting match which lasted 2 hours 50 minutes. As the score plainly indicates, the tide of battle swung from one to the other player. The long gruelling match and the partisanship of the 13,000 spectators for Budge, with cheering and groaning at improper times, greatly annoyed Perry. Although Perry won Budge scored 28 games to Perry’s 27 and 187 points to Perry’s 180. In the fifth set, after Budge had broken through the Englishman’s service in the eighth game to lead 5—3, the prospects of an American victory brought the crowd to a high pitch of excitement. Here Perry tightened and with a remarkable display of slashing tennis, won three straight games to lead 6—5. The American again rallied and forced the battle to 7 6 and B—7, and although several times he reached match point, Perry always beat back the threat and finally crashed through to a 10—8 victory. MISS MARBLE DEFEATS MISS JACOBS FOREST HILLS, Sept. 12. (Received Sept. 13, at 8 p.m.) In the women’s final Miss Marble sprung a surprise, defeating Miss Jacobs 4—6, 6—3. 6—2. If she had won it would have been Miss Jacobs’s fifth consecutive American championship, and her disappointment was keen After a shaky first set, Miss Marble, who has been out of active tennis for two years, because of illness, played a strong, steady game which the defending champion could not successfully counter.