TENNIS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 July 1939, Page 8

TENNIS

SEABRIGHT TOURNAMENT CHAMPIONSHIP DOUBLES. CRAWFORD AND QUIST BEATEN. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. NEW YORK. July 27. In the championship doubles of the Seabright lawn tennis tournament, G. Mulloy and J. H. Doeg defeated the Australians. J. H. Crawford and A. K. Qu:s-.. 3.6. 9/7, 6/4. It was a disapi pointing match, in which intermittent | ,;..n made the courts siippery despite | spikes warn Crawford taking r i.ans, ai.er vumi.na first ■■■ ; ;>t J and holding the score 7-7 in u.e seccxict - ran into bad luck. Crawford lost ha service when he netted two volleys lithe fifteenth game, giving the Americans the advantage. Other doubles teams winning the day's matches were Cooke and Riggs Parker and McNeill, and Sabin and Mako. In the mixed doubles. Peacock and Miss Canning defeated Crawford and Mrs Rice-Johnson. 6'3. 6/4. A STRIKE THREATENED AMONG DAVIS CUP PLAYERS. TOO MUCH NAP ON BALL. (Received This Day. 10.10 a.m.) SEABRIGHT, July 28. The Davis Cup candidates are threatening a strike over the 1939 championship tennis ball. Every ranking player competing at Seabright with the exception of Parker today signed a petition to the United States Lawn Tennis Association asking that the ball be changed for one with a lighter nap; otherwise they declared that they would refuse to compete in the Eastern championships at Rye. A cable from New York on'Wednesday stated:— The Australian tennis player Jack Crawford has joined the Americans who are complaining about the long nap on the 1939 United States ball. The new ball continues to elicit much discussion. The Australians and Rigg and Cooke are agreed in declaring it harder to control than the English ball, being too heavy and absorbing moisture from the turf, making “put away” shots impossible. I EUROPEAN ZONE DAVIS CUP FINAL. I GERMANY v. YUGOSLAVIA. ZAGREB. July 28. In the European zone Davis Cup

i final Puncec (Yugoslavia) defeated Goepfert (Germany), 6/3, 6/1, 6/0, and Henkel (Germany)' defeated Mitic (Ygoslavia) 6/0, 6/1, 4/6, 6/4. WESTERN CANADA SEMI-FINALS AT VANCOUVER. BROMWICH AND HOPMAN WIN. VANCOUVER, July 28. In the semi-finals of the Western Canadian lawn tennis championships last evening Bromwich (Australia) beat William “Ready (California), 6-2, 6-3 and Hopman (Australia) beat Tom Chambers (Minnesota), 6-4, 6-2. Bromwich and Hopman beat the Davis brothers (Oregon), 6-0, 6-2, in the doubles. In the mixed doubles Bromwich and Miss Eleanor Young (Vancouver) beat John Amonett and Miss Shirley Catton (California), 6-3, 6-3.