Show Shields Put PutOut PutOut PutOut Out of Meet By Champion Fred Perry Defeats Wood to Earn Title Match With Jack Crawford WIMBLEDON England July Jub 4 IP Fred Fred Perry British ace eliminated Sidney B. B Wood 6 3 6 3 7 7 5 7 57 7 6 3 from the semifinals of the Wimbledon Wimble don singles championships today after af ter Frank Shields second American lost to Jack Crawford defending champion from Australia in the first of the semifinals semifinal The final round of ot the all England championships became just that as Crawford rallied after being two sets down to Shields and finally beat bent himIn himIn him himin in one of the most brilliant struggles any capacity gathering at Wimbledon Wimble Wimble- don ever has hns seen Scores of the Shields Crawford match were 2 6 4 6 6 6 3 6 Defeat of ot the two American singles aces who will represent the United States in the singles play in the final rounds of the Davis cup competition left only Helen Hull Jacobs American Amen Ameri can women's champion in the historic his his- tonic Wimbledon singles competition She will meet Joan Hartigan Australian Australian Aus Aus- Italian champion In one of the semifinals semifinals semi semi- finals in the women's competition tomorrow Both Shields ShIelds' and Wood carried their empire opponents to the full I limit of five lIve sets before going down downto to defeat before a crowd d of that packed the Wimbledon stands Shields playing perhaps the best tennis of his career seemed on on his way to victory over Crawford rated No 1 in the world ranking as late as the fifth game of the final set where the American led 3 to 1 in games But Crawford in superb form torm hit one of his invincible streaks and nd despite the marvelous play of ot the taIl tall New Yorker ran out the deciding set sot Similarly Wood the slender blonde New Yorker who with Shields must face Perry again if the United States Slates advances to to the challenge round found against Britain's Davis cup champions cham pious was in the thick of the fight until the last ball was hit Swapping sets by the same scores alternating victories after Perry had won the first set the last battle of ol the day came down lm to the final set and a tie tic at 3 games all aU Here Perry rallied magnificently for the Important all service break taking a 4 3 lead in games after Wood had held his own delivery nine straight times in the two previous sets Perry held his own service and In a fierce battle batUe broke through Wood again in the ninth game to clinch the match The he e final point was scored in tense b silence as Perry hit the net cord I with a return that just did roll over the tape and plop into the Ameri Amen Americans Americans American's cans can's court The crowd gave Perr Perry and Wood an ovation just justas as it had hac I cheered Crawford and Shields wildly at the end of their brilliant duel Two wo Americans in the mixed dou dou- bus competition went out in third I round matches while the tion of George Lott of ot Chicago asic and I ISarah Sarah Palfrey of of Boston def I IJiro Jiro of ot Japan and Miss I E E. H H. Harvey of England 6 4 8 David Jones former Columbia ath lete ide and Mrs W J. J Dyson of England En En gland land were eliminated by the v veteran teran team of Frank Wilde and Mrs M M. R R. King of ot England 6 0 6 Dorothy Andrus of Stamford Conn and her French partner M M. lost to Miki of Japan and Dorothy Round British star 3 6 3 6 5 |