Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-09-12 | Page 15 | Perry Took Defeat at Hands of Allison like True Champion, Declares Mclemore

Perry Took Defeat a at t Hands of Allison Like True Champion t. t Declares tes ore McLemore By HENRY lUcLE McLEMORE N NEW W YORK YORI Sept 12 UP UP- UP One of the truest tests of oC a champi champion champion cham cham- pi pion n they say lies in how he ho takes n a licking If It that be s o then Fred Perry of England top man in t tennis tonnis throughout the world for the tho past two years is a real champion His years of riding on top Stop never made him forget how how- to ac accept ept graciously a a defeat It was a a tough to lose that one he dropped to Wilmer Wilmer- Allison in the of the national to tournament yesterday It cost him among other things a chance to win the American championship three years in in inn a n 1 rowand retire the big and valuable valuable ble blo cup cup Yet If it ho he c complained it was not not- while the tennis writers writ writ- ers er were within earshot After Atter the tho match Perry min minimized his injury in in the seventh I game of at the first set and paid high tribute to his ive got no grouse he saidI saidI said I 1 had hada a licking coming to me me and unluckily for me It came two days daya too soon Wilmer Vilmer played magnificently That Perrys Perry's Injury h hurt his chances no thinking nan man denied Hes He's too fine tine a tennis player to lose to any player In the he world In straight sets seta Mind you OU I I. I said straight sets I dont don't think Perry Perry- p- p on hi his finest linest day could have beaten the Allison of ot yester yester- day He was in the same sort sort sort-Of of ot spell spen that descended on Ellsworth Vines in 1933 when he blasted Henri Cochet Cachet of ot France Franco then the No 1 player of the world to take the the- title Vines couldn't miss that day and neither could Allison yes yes- On normal days Allison has allowed himself a sort of at working edge but against Perry ho hit right out for the lines and hit them nearly every time I If It he plays even two-thirds two as aswell well today hell he'll smother the Sidney Sidney Sidney Sid Sid- ney Wood who played Bryan Grant yesterday Wood was so unsure of himself against BItsy J that he discarded his normal norma game entirely and pla played ed pat ball It made a most horrendous horrendous- spectacle for Grant plays pat ball to end pat ball Certainly the tho national championship never has been such a semifinal The Tho boys employed a a. sort of at sickly half halt lob Job and their rallies many of oC which saw saw- the ball float lazily back and forth across the net as many manyas as 20 times nearly drove I 1 the customers daffy Nobody blamed Grant for tor that's the natural game for forthe the tiny Atlant Atlant At- At lant lantan n. n But for tor Wood for Wood one of the finest in the world to resort to such a a game ame was was was- well lets let's say It was was was-er er uh ag uh-ag- ag aggravating as the very dickens