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Show chroederr llmmv SnsriLvK loubfos, f die avis Conp Br OATLK TALBOT . MELBOURNE. Dee. 37 (AP) Ted Schroeder and Jack Kramer won the Davia cup, symbol of -world tennis supremaoy, for tha United States today, breexing through Australia's doubles team In straight sets. John Bromwich and Adrian Quirt, whose brilliant play won the cup for Australia in the last International matches In 1939, never had a chance today, as the two Californlans teamed to complete tha whirlwind victory launched so magnificently yesterday with 'Schroeder'e stunning upset win over Bromwich In the singles. sin-gles. I t If anythtng, the Americans gave the stricken crowd at Kooyong courts an even more convincing exhibition ex-hibition of their supremacy than they did yesterday, blasting out their doubles dou-bles triumph, 6-2, 7-5, 6-4, In just 77 minutes Win First Fear They ran' off the first four games of the first set easily and from that moment on there never- was mads doubt about the outcome. Tha mag nlflcent services of tha two Americans Ameri-cans gave Bromwich and Quiet little ' opportunity to break through anal so stealing waa Kramer's eerrtee that ha won eight games without s break. Tomorrow's concluding I a g I matches, pitting Schroeder against Dlnny Falls and Kramer against Bromwich, will be largely attended, even though they, have no further bearing on the cup. Australia na, who were Drettv confident until vea terday, would like to salvage some thing and definitely would ilka to as Bromwich beat Kramer. But from tha appearances yesterday yester-day and today it looked aa though tennla down under la going Into eclipse Internationally for a while until a whole new crop of players ran be developed. Bromwich an4 Qulst never, except for brief fleshes, showed the quality of VT they did before the war and Palis, who last to Kramer yesterday, la not yet la the brilliant class of prewar Aus tralian tennis. History Be peats Today's doubles victory was an- -other demonstration that history does repeat Itself, for 16 years sgo "Big Bill" Tllden and "Little Bill" Johnston John-ston wrested the Davis cup from tha Australians In exactly the same way with three straight wins. Walter Pate, nonplaylng American team captain, waa aa proud aa a mother hen over the victory and commented com-mented : "I've always said Kramer and Schroeder at their peak are the beat doubles team In the world. They very nearly reached that peak today." From the moment at the start when they broke Bromwlch'a service, to the match point, with which Kramer cracked the net cord, tha Americans dominated tha play, plU ing up to the net Ilk two 4-year-old heading for a candy store. Hard Smashes ' . Twice In tha first set the towering Schroeder caught Bromwich In the . stomach with nard smashes, one of them oauslng tha two-band-swlngtng Aussie to double up with- pain for several momenta be to re he eould continue. con-tinue. ' The Australian led only ones In the match. That waa In the second set, when they broke through Schroeder Schroe-der to take a 4-1 advantage, but ths ' Americana came right back to break 'Quiet and square it at 4-alJ and repeated re-peated four games later t sew ap that match. In the deciding set, ths Calif or-, nians broke through Bromwlch'a normally nor-mally tight service In the crucial ninth game to put the Davis cup back In American hands for tha first time In seven years. |
