Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-09-02 | Page 8 | Lakers Retain Knight Trophy

tAKERS LAKERS RETAIN KNIGHT TROPHY Salt Lakes Lake's powerful team is again holder of the J. J Will Knight cup for tor another year but tennis fans are arc wondering what happened to Mel Gallacher intermountain champion in the finals at the Salt Lake Tennis club Frida Friday Salt Lake walloped Ogden in the finale four matches to one but that lone defeat for tor the locals saw the champion succumb to Bill Stratford of ot Ogden in the astounding scores of 6 1 6 The ether results were Dave Freed Salt Lake won over Hy Cannon of Ogden 6 1 6 63 Bill Woodard Salt Lake swamped J Jim im Chadick of Ogden 6 2 6 0 Freed and Gallacher Salt Lake n nosed out Cannon and Stratford 6 3 3 3 36 6 Grant Evans and Harvey Hansen S Salt alt Lake won over Dr H H. C C. C Shephard Shep Shep- h hard ard and nd Gordon Bluth 6 3 10 8 Gallacher simply wasn't the same m man that conquered Frank o of ot f Los Angeles and Fred Dixon of oP Provo P in the int intermountain tournament m ment ent here recently His old tricks s simply imply were not working and his hisame game g ame lacked its u usual ual punch His s sw slaps laps were finding the net frequently w while hile Stratford was pounding his returns re re- returns t turns urns with well welt placed loop drives The Ogden champion occasioned t the thenet h net enough to catch the Salt L Laker aker with well angled volleys Then t to too oo Bills Bill's service which has been s somewhat t erratic was functioning atop at t top op form rm Stratford whose brilliance was t the he highlight of the finale raced t through the first set with ease Howver However How How- e ver ever the spectators believed Galla Galla- p pra practiced in the past But Bill c cher her was just toying something he s surprised the gallery by racing t through the first three games of the s second set Gallacher won the next t two wo but then the University of Utah s star tar turned on the steam and ran o out ut the set