PLAY IN AMERICA

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 621, 28 August 1933, Page 5

PLAY IN AMERICA

(Press Assn.-

AUSTRALIA BEATEN IN THE DOUBLES , EVENT A IQEEN CONTEST

-By Telegraph— Copyrlght).

Chestnut Hills, August 25. Lott and Stoeffen (America) defeated Cra.wford and McGrath (Australia), 6-2, 7-5, 7-5. _ The Australians got away to a decidedly bad start, permitting their opponents to amass a 4-0 lead. M'cGrath's douhle-handed ■ back-hands were driying the ball yards out, while Crawford found his returns placed :in impossible positions at his feet. The Australians halved a set poirit * in the seventh game, but lost the eighth to love, Lott's and Stoeffen's strokes being steady as against the constant errors of the Australians. In the second set therg evidentiy was something laekadaisical in th'e Australians' play. They seemed just unable to make their strokes coriie off. The Americans were decidedly in form, and took a 4-2 lead. The Australians by a brilliant spurt evened at 5-5. This was the first important break in the Americans' winning ,streak? but the Australians almost immediately lapsed into short driving. Their opponents took the next two games, winning the last to love. The Australians unquestionably improved in the third set, terminating

some -exceptionally splendid rafiies With winning points. Stoeffen was 'temporarily a weak link, the Australians pounding~his service with impossible returns. For the first time in Ihe match they led 4-3, and then 5-4. It was, however, a brief bid for 5-4. Crawford's nets in the eleventh 'gaflie reversed the positions of the teams, and th'e Americans led 6-5. ; It was the end, aird the Americans took the twelfth game handily, on Lott's seryice.