Salt Lake Telegram | 1938-01-27 | Page 15 | Vines Beats Perry, 11-9. 11-9

IN S BEATS PERRY 11 9 f 9 11 I treat reat Serve I Gives Elly I I Match Here I Thanks hanks to his cannonball service ky icy EI Ellsworth Vines left Salt Salte ake ke e City Thursday with a 5 3 lead t- t I over Fred Perry in their current professional tennis ten ten- w w ii nis tour having r- r 1 overpowered t the h e it 1 smooth stroking ri Englishman 9 11 9 11 in their ex ex- at IF f the Deseret Wednesday gym night here I r l Tennis Tennis adepts who might have AA been sk skeptical e p tic a 1 R w i 3 b o 0 u t the acl ac- ac l i counts ou ts of Vines Vines' i JW service having vi killed a collie d Vines dog S when it accident accident- ly struck the canine during one of in m the orient a couple f years ago had all lingering n doubt out moved Wednesday as they he- he Calif in action saw I Vines lines had power t to burn Wed Wed- In la sharp contrast to his performance here a year ear ago when his lus drives were missing the tarS tar- tar S g t Vines P pounded the corners the service courts for repeated aces aes and flicked the base lines with ith sizzling drives all evening l long g. g Always the master of stroke exe- exe ution Perry usually won the long hanges a but he did a lot of runt run run- mg lg to win them And Vines alays alays alays al- al ays ays fell back with mighty conti- conti ince once ence upon his service to stay in l ie trace irace race P Perry rry took a 4 1 lead in the first t but Vines took the next game om m. m Tt 40 30 and then broke Freds Fred's to make it 3 4 Games fol- fol wed ed service then until the nine- nine nth game when Vines again toke oke ke through the Britons Briton's delivery id w after trailing 40 15 in the next ime ime came cane through on his own to win the set Twice vice during the next set Perry as as' as ason on the verge of putting Vines l ra ifa hole but ea each time Ellys bombardment in service ther brought cut clear-cut aces or orl l bled him to drive to the net to points with a savage fore- fore ind inch r lOn n several occasions his serves li licked ked at the lines so fast that ii men and other officials had following them Once when rh n a decision went against Vi Vines es which Perry thought was r the former star of the Brit- Brit j avis cup forces deliberately n w mj w the next point away And Ines was equally gracious a few ames les later when Perry thought i l e had drawn yu the worst of a de- de isi ision n. n Berkeley Bell of Texas beat Walt ni i r o of California 12 10 in the augural exhibition and Perry and forces to beat Vines and 6 4 6 3 in the doubles fray L Less ss than a thousand fans saw arn a drop of 50 50 per cent om oln last years year's crowd