BUDGE BEATS QUIST

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 September 1938, Page 5

BUDGE BEATS QUIST

AMERICANS RETAIN DAVIS CUP AUSTRALIAN REPEATEDLY FOOTFAULTED. CROWD JEERS LINE JUDGE. By Telegraph—Press Association. Copyright. (Recd This Day, 10.5 a.m.) PHILADELPHIA, September 5. In the Davis Cup contest Budge beat Quist 8/6, 6/1, 6/2. Bromwich beat Riggs, 6/4, 4/6 6/0, 6/2. America retained the Davis Cup by three matches to two. Success with passing shots in the early part of the first set gave Quist a 3/1 lead, but Budge drew level at 3/3. The games then alternated with the service. '

There was a peculiar incident in the tenth game, when Quist was leading 40/15. The footfault judge called three footfaults against Quist, completely upsetting the Australian and seemingly having the same effect on Budge. The crowd booed and Mr Paul Gibbons, who was umpiring, cautioned the spectators that “footfaults are part of the game.” Budge dropped three points successively, apparently without trying, thus giving the Australian the game.

Breaks in service occurred in the eleventh and twelfth games, each dropping a game, and the score stood at 6/6/ Quist stood at 40/0 to break Budge’s service again in the thirteenth game, but the American recovered, to take the game with the loss of only one more point. The footfault judge called two footfaults against Quist in the fourteenth game and the crowd jeered unmercifully. Mr Gibbons angrily cautioned the audience, saying: “Footfaults are footfaults and should be called. This is a most unsporting protest against them. The Australian captain agrees with me on that.” Budge thereafter sportingly dropped the two points which the footfaulting had cost Quist, but the latter seemed unnerved and dropped the game, after deuce, and the set. In the second set, Quist outed repeatedly and the American led 4/0. Quist won the fifth game on Budge’s service, but was unable to carry on the revival and lost the set 1/6. In the third set, both played spottily. Quist lost his service twice and Budge once. Quist’s service, however, returned to form in the fourth game which he won. The American took the next two games for a lead of 5/1. Quist won the seventh game, but it was only a brief interlude and he went under in the eighth, Budge winning the match and thus retaining the Cup for the United States. Mr Harold Lebair, who called the footfaults against Quist, later explained: “Quist leaped into the air when serving and clearly footfaulted.” When asked why he alone called footfaults, he shrugged his shoulders. “VIOLATING THE RULES.” Interviewed by an Australian Associated Press correspondent, Mr Lebair said: “Quist had both his feet off the ground every, time I footfaulted him. He was simply violating the rules.” The correspondent asked: “Did he footfault before the tenth game?” “No, I called the first footfault I saw,” said Mr Lebair. The correspondent asked: “Did he footfault after the last one you called?” Mr Lebair replied: “Yes, he repeatedly footfaulted after that.” “Why didn’t you call them?” asked the correspondent. “I didn’t because the man’s game was completely demoralised,” stated Mr Lebair. Mr Shaw, interviewed by the Australian Associated Press correspondent, said Quist did not footfault on his side of the court. , Asked why, Mr Shaw replied: “Because he was facing into the sun and did not jump up.” The correspondent asked: “But you believe he footfaulted on Mr Lebair’s side?” ' ' “Yes, because I saw him repeatedly jump off the ground on the first day and therefore I know he footfaults that way, but the only thing that saved him on Saturday was spiked shoes, which kept him in contact with the ground. However this is a silly rule and should be removed from the rules book,” declared Mr Shaw. PROTEST BY QUIST. Quist, on leaving the court, told the Australian Associated Press correspondent: “It was horrible. How can I be expected to play tennis if I am not allowed to serve. Those footfaults cost me the match even before the contest was well on its way. There was simply nothing I seemed able to do after the tenth game. I was pretty well at the top of my game before that and would not have allowed the match to go sb easily.” BROMWICH & RIGGS SOME AMUSING PLAY. AUSTRALIAN DECISIVELY SUPERIOR. (Recd This Day, 10.30 a.m.L PHILADELPHIA. September 5. In the Bromwich-Riggs match, each player lost a service in the first set. Bromwich won his service in the third game, but Riggs again dropped his, giving the Australian a 3/1 lead. Riggs drew level at 3/3. At this stage the tennis became amusing, both dropshotting frequently. Riggs showed surprising ability in scoring points from these, but Bromwich netted little easy ones and the crowd was hilarious. The games alternated with the service until Bromwich won the ninth, breaking through Riggs’s service, and took the set by winning the tenth with cool placements, after forcing the American out of position. In the second set, when the score was at 2/2 the players again tried to outtrick each other with drop-shots and again Riggs had the better of it. This time it was costly to Bromwich, who lost his service in the seventh game and the American led 4/3, which he improved to 5/3 after the best game of the match/in which, after long-sustain-ed rallies, the American’s lobs or volleys ultimately proved ungettable. • Bromwich won his service in the ninth game, but Riggs settled matters in the tenth with a series of beautiful smashes and passing shots. In the third set, playing with sus-

tained precision, Bromwich had the better of it throughout. The American contested every point, but the Australian was just a little more “on the ball.” In the final set the Australian was too steady for his opponent, who netted or outed most of his shots. Bromwich had a lapse after leading 5/0, Riggs winning the sixth and seventh games and the American was leading 40/15 in the eighth game when Bromwich applied the necessary pressure to win the game, set and match.