Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-01-01
DAVIES CUP
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neatn got in one remarkably good
serVlc" that won him the ace, but his
early strokes in this critical opening
same were by no means confident. ami
he lOSt tie game at l.. Pa~ke took
the pals ID hand, and won his service,
heath again scoring only one stroke
sharp, decisive vol1ey at the ne;
Inc visitor led, lat %, and. though
tealth pulled off the third game amid
great cheering, Parke was we'll in front
al 81, and again at Al. He event
latly won the set. which lasted ONLY
~ minutes, at CO.
+ from this out the issue was never
seriously in question. At the outset
the main hope for The Australian was
tfat Parke should be off his game, but
larke was not off his game. He was
shade more cautious than when fac
Ing Brookes, and he made fewer SEN
satlonal shots, but his work from the
base line, both with fore and back
h%nd, was marveloHsly sound. and
might we'll have tested any player in
the world. Heath also elected to play
the base-line game. Despite several
eXnortatlons from admirers in the
crowd to go for the net, he declined to
q" so, EXCEPT now ana again when a
chance offered, and he was beaten,
not because he played badly, but be-
cause ne met better base-liner than
himself.
When both men were hitting from
the back line Heath often hit brilliant
~, but Parke hit on the whole more
consistently, with a greater command
OF length and distance, and with less
liability to make mistakes, and that
was how he won the Davis Cup for the
British Isles. After beating Heath 6-g
IN the first set, he beat him Cd the
second, and after the Australian had
made gallant fight up to four all,
beat him "a in the third. =
With a strike wanted to give the
britisher the match, Heath failed at
difficult return. The cup was England's
and On the instant the British repre-
sentative, with the victory that he had
Come 10000 miles for in his grasp, ran
lmpetuously ON the court and flung his
arms round the man who had crowned /
his tour with victory, while the crowd.
vented itsIfeeling with cheer after
cheer.
OF Parke's play in the match /
against tBrookes on the first day, the
Sydney. Sunday Telegraph says
1t was apparent to everyone as
soon pas the match was over that a
new star had risen on the tennis hori
ION, and quite one of the most brilli-
ant that thad ever shone there.
Brookes played we'll but Parke was
over him. Up to the time he was
leading ALI in the first set there was /
no semblance of flaw in the Austra,
liam champions game. He followed
the return with his usual unerring
Judgment and killed it with the quick,
crisp Eolley of which he is a past /
master, He did this not once but a 4
dozen times in the first few games,
and looked like doing it triumphantly
all through the match. Against any
)thef, player than Parke, he doubtless
would have done it, but the Irishman, |
as the, game went on, developed a |
)ace and a severity in his returns
nlcn even niooHes Goulu nv "h.lc T
'ate' ana even DlOohes Couiu ~
MASTER II lndUteLed not ~ a. NC
" nat pace tne odll C az . leu, ~ lio nn
nat angie II came 'ne1e t.a1;ar
hch III Wnlch 10 pass l''e IN'''' n ,'l.,,'
lie passed hlul' IL t"e'e I''1 n :" 80
oot OF court uhl',C cue, seO -, h;t with
ne pan tneIe' anu "i!''U .itL doodlv
lSntL!hs Sl,eeu NC ~ Dvao1,oS 1nt /