Salt Lake Telegram | 1938-08-27 | Page 11 | Now Tennis Boys Are 'Throwing Games, Says Henry

Now Tennis Tennis Boys Bogs Are Throwing Games Says H Henry nry By Dy HENRY McLEMORE l United Press Staff Correspondent CHESTNUT HILL Mass Aug 27 Please dont don't whisper It to a soul but tennis but tennis is coming to a pretty pass ass chums when the boys start throwing matches It was remindful of a wrestling fix at the Longwood Cricket club yesterday when Harry Hopman and Leonard eonard Schwartz 0 obligingly b 11 gin g 1 y knocked mocked the ball bail out of bounds and into nto the net to ease the progress of their heir countrymen Adrian Quist and andack Jack ack Bromwich into the final round Had they played at ht top speed peed Hopman and Schwartz probably would have won but that would have been very embarrassing because they are the Australian A o 0 Davis cup spar spares and Quist and Bromwich BromIch are the tho regulars A defeat would have lowered the morale of the regulars and they need all the morale they can muster muster muster mus mus- ter what with the Davis cup challenge challenge challenge chal chal- lenge round less than a week away I H Heres Here's res re's a boost for Gene Mako Don Budges Budge's doubles partner He HeIs Heis Heis is a great player and a fine sportsman sports sports- man Almost every paper Gene picks up has a story In it telling what a handicap he is to Budge and how Budge should choose another p partner Well he and Don have won the Wimbledon title twice in a arow arow arow row and in all their matches the heaviest fire Is directed at Mako If he lie weren't a fine player he would have broken down under the pressure pressure pressure pres pres- sure long ago Mako has car ned ried Budge In the doubles tournament tournament tournament ment this week Budge still under the care of a physician has been a feeble player but the team is In the final round and it was Mako Maico who brought it there Yon Yvon Petra the champion of France and the biggest man In tennis should take a correspondence correspond correspondence correspond ence course In court manners from Baron Daron von on Cramm The baron now languishing In the tho jug German for jail was the perfect gentleman on the tennis court from his first servo serve to final point Petra spares no one when things go against him He lie makes gestures of disgust when his partner makes an error frowns and growls ls when he is beaten by a fine shot and bolts boils o over when the officials call a close decision against him Frank Kovacs the unique California California Cali Call fornia youngster has taken back all the bad things he said George about Hudson his coach The pupil and the master have made up and now share soft drinks through the same straw Australia Is a cinch to win the Davis cup as soon as Budge answers the call of gold And once they get it and start defending It miles away it will vill have rust on the handles before anyone takes It from them You Youcan Youcan Youcan can throw out the threat The TM biggest disappointments disappoint disappoint- ments of the tournament were the Jugos Franjo other or other or I J and Ferenc Whatever It The best prospect among the younger girls Is Patricia Canning of ofSan ofSan ofSan San Francisco She Is the same type of player as Alice Marble Sidney Wood gold mine operator says Bobby Riggs will vill win both his hI Davis cup singles matches Fame Is fleeting note When the young Patricia Canning we mentioned mentioned men men- a few sentences before asked the tournament officials for a mixed d doubles partner they said All right well we'll give you Jacques S Brugnon Who is Jacques Brugnon Miss Canning asked No one Miss Canning except the first of the Three Musketeers o of France who won and kept the Davis cup for years S. S r f