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Show Budge Triumphs Over Crawford SYDNEY, Australia, Dec. 2 INH My lf nag Junk leaw. ford. Australia's tennis Idol, in an exhibition match. Donald Budge of California today won forgiveness from disappointed Australian tennis ten-nis fans who resented his recent poor showing against Baron Gottfried Gott-fried von Cramm of Germany. Today's match between Budge and Crawford was arranged to appease ap-pease fans who were displeased when the German defeated Budge in straight sets. When the matter mat-ter was taken before the Australian Uwn Tennis association. Budge expressed ex-pressed sincere regrets that "he did not take the match against Von Cramm as seriously as the occasion demanded." Today, to "make amends." Budge fulfilled his promise to play better and trounced Crawford. 7-, 8-1. An overflow crowd of 12.000 watched the match in the White City stadium. Assured by nia performance per-formance that he was on his toes and doing his best, the fans gave the American player an ovation. |