| Show Ruth Crow Captures Singles ing les Title for Tenth Time By FRANK K BAKER BAItER Telegram Sports Editor Playing superb tennis behind a service which was broken only three times Dick Bennion beat Malcolm Booth 6 1 6 1 2 26 6 9 7 9 to win the Salt Lake City singles championship championship championship champion champion- ship for the third successive successive- year ear at the Forest Dale courts Sunday Bennion's victory squared the se seas seasons season's sea sea- s sons son's ns n's competition between the two o collegiate stars at two matches apiece and was particularly swee sweeto sweet to the Ute ace who lost six match points to the B. B Y U. U southpaw who won a prolonged encounter between the two in the state collegiate finals at Provo a month ago Loses Three Games Ruth Crow captured her tenth city championship by beating Annis Carlson 6 2 6 Frank Mehner the young southpaw who extended Booth through a hour four-hour match before being eliminated in the semifinals semifinals semifinals semi semi- finals of the mens men's division lost only three thrle eames in h beating atin Tank TaCk Gre Green Green- n- n 1 6 1 6 2 6 junior forthe for the junior cham cham- Mehner also teamed with Jimmy Eakins to beat Hal Lamb and Ray Dubois DuboLs 6 1 6 2 in the junior doubles finals Dave and Dan Freed beat Bennion Bennion Ben Ben- nion and Gordon Giles the Intercollegiate intercollegiate intercollegiate inter inter- collegiate tandem champions and the d defending e f fen e a d din i n g titleholders in straight sets for the doubles crown Scores were 6 4 6 3 6 Bennion played flawless tennis in inthe inthe inthe the first two sets Booth flattened out his drives a little better in the third set and prolonged the match with a 6 2 victory Great Exhibition Dicks Dick's overhead w which h i c h had blasted point scoring smashes all allover allover allover over the court in the first two sets set lost its accuracy in the fourth set and the Provo an ran Into a 2 0 lead at the outset Bennion's stubborn kept him in the game however just when Booth threat threatened ned to take an even more commanding lead in inthe Inthe Inthe the set Up to the net for two short lobs Booth smashed hard overheads at the Salt Laker in the fourth game but Dick went after both both of f them On one he virtu virtually climbed up the backstop but his desperate lob landed squarely on the baseline and threw the game into deuce The complexion of the match seemed to change completely completely- with that shot In an instant Bennion waS was again the aggressor Games followed service until the game stood 8 7 for Bennion although although although al al- al- al though Booth needed a pair of aces to offset a pair of double faults in inthe inthe inthe the twelfth g game me What appeared like another deuced game was turned into match point when Bennion Bennion Ben Ben- nion went after an almost impossible impossible impossible sible shot and came up with a retrieve retrieve retrieve re re- re- re trieve which Booth netted In an attempt to score a cross ross court kill |
