LOST HIS ROUND

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 299, 12 August 1932, Page 3

LOST HIS ROUND

BQROTRA CHANGES HIS TACTICS IN EPIC MATCH. PARIS, Saturday. Borotra wasn't the "bounding Basque" of old in his epic match with the American champion, Vines, in the challenge round for the Davis Cup. The crowd saw a grimly determined Frenchman this time. "He wasted no strength in diving for impassible balls, and was never more suhdued or determined," says S. N. Doust in the Daily Mail. "He grimly triumphed by supreme steadiness." "Cocnet was funereal and looked a third-rater, hut he fulfilled his instructions to tiro Allison. He teased the American into errors in a manner that only a supreme master could accomplish." Thousands unable to enter the ground watched the scorehoard from tho outside, and listened to the hroadcast through a loud-speaker which an enterprising taxi-driver had installed in his cab. Cheers were thus added to those of the luckier people inside. Borotra's Courtcraft. Francs's winning of ths first two singles has surprised the tennis world. Extraordinary scenes were witnessed at the ground, the record crowd being in a continuo.us uproar at the excitament of the play. Borotra's generalship stood to him against the hard-hitting Vines. He handled services and drives in a manner not seen at Wimbledon, and his sbeadiness was blended with flashes of dashing tennis. In sight of victory, Borotra seemed to be inspired.