Show COMEDY OF 0 F ERRORS SAYS TILDE TILDEN TI j Both Stars Blew Flock Of Chances Great Creat Player Figures Frank Shields Play Played d With Too Much Caution 1 I Editors Editor's Note English tennis fans had one of their grea greatest st thrills as Frank Shields failed to weather a 15 13 storm set with Fred Perry worlds world's ranking star for the dc defeat cat that repulsed Americas America's Davis cup forces Bill Tilden one o of the worlds world's greatest t net campaigners ners has a Jew ew interesting observations albeit a bit cynical By B WILLIAM WILLIA I T. T TILDEN I II Special to The Telegram Copyright 1934 by the North American American Amer Amer- ican Newspaper Alliance Inc mci I WIMBLEDON England Aug 1 By Cable England England retained possession possession possession pos pos- session of ot the Davis cup when Fred Per Perry r y defeated S FI Frank ank Shields of the American team in one of the strangest matches in the ever played historic ten tennis n is competition J For three sets t iS Perry and Shields f played fine tine tennis fourth set tf i. j y abut J bu t the S 44 4 wa a l long ng period 1 S 1 I of tennis th that t can only be termed a tx comedy o of errors iA v 1 i H t Ji 5 as both players became be be- it Po 1 came so nervous Tilden that neither could take the Innumerable chances of victory vic vie tory ory that he had Five times Shields held a vital ital break through Perrys Perry's service giving iving the American the chance to win wm the set and tie tic up th the ma match ch at all 2 and and five times he tossed it II away on his own error rather than Perrys Perry's play One does not know whether to praise Shields for the closeness of oIl his defeat or blame him for faltering at critical moments of ot the last set The same is true of Perry Certainly at moments the Briton was great but butin butin butin in the last set with victory at hand he played tennis far farbelow below the caliber cali ber of ot a worlds world's champion One can only regret that thal he was not called upon to fight a fifth set to see o of what stuff stull he is made There Is little to say about tactics tactics tac tac- tics In the match makh because errors were sere so 80 fr frequent quent that no sustained sustained sus sus- attack was possible Perry opened his scheme of attack into S Shields' Shields backhand in the first game He used his flat forehand with fine pace consistently into a vulnerable able spot forcing Shields fo to o err Perrys Perry's handling of Shields' Shields fast service was excellent Shields' Shields inability inability in in- ability to return Perrys Perry's service consistently consistently con con- had him him always always working up out of ot difficulties He was best besl when Perry gave him a target by coming in in Perry grew cautious and Shields make the mistake of lessening his hitting hit hit- ting Moments of Great Play The tennis at this point was wac absolutely absolutely first class Shields' Shields ground strokes were holding up well under the merc merciless battering by hr Perry but the En Englishman forced him to errors and took look the ret tt t when Shields blew a forehand drive yards ards out I I f think S Shields should hould have forced the net more He lie hung back too much even though his ground game was good rood for him He forced errors from Perry when ho he came In which the Englishman Englishman Englishman Eng Eng- lishman never made with Shields back Perry led 40 0 in m the first game of the s second ond set only to have Shields cornel t the net to volley his way to tode de deuce ce and t then n break Perry on the Englishman's ns n's error It It was a careless careless care care- less game by Perry but a fine ine recovery ery cry by Shields Perry appeared to relax and miss shots shale carelessly as Shields went vent to 2 20 a 2 a a very vcr dangerous attitude against a man man of ot Shields Shield ties Shields' Shields attacking tactics seemed to upset Perrys Perry's tion second game of oC the the third s Ed I Shields was as b. b by the enter center service linesman on the second balland ball balland balland I and was so upset that he served another another an an- I other double fault tault Shields saved two game points but a gre great t passing shot by Perry took the game and the Briton led 2 Perry Good and Bad Perry was playing most peculiar tennis like a worlds world's champion at atone atone atone one point and nd like a dub the next He produced his best tennis when he needed it which after all is the hall hallmark mark of a champion Shields opened a desperate net attack attack at at- tack and was on a k clean act acl at love 40 for or game then double double- faulted twice and nd missed to deuce but fought Bought his way to l 1 Perry twisted his ankle in the third game Jame but won nevertheless on Shields' Shields errors er ere er- er He apparently was all right immediately |