Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-08
WIMBLEDON HERO
. HAS LEARNED FAST
KozeIuh Given Much Credit
for Improvement in
Youths Game.
BY VINCENT RICHARDS.

Professional Tennis Champion of the World.
THIS year will go down in English
tennis history as the brightest
in more than a decade for John
Bull. After years of waiting
and of discouraging defeats
England at last has player in Wnom
it can hope for a renewal OF its glor-
ious victories of the past.
Bunny Austin, 21-year-old hero OF
Wimbledon. is the lad who seems
destined to lead his country out of the
tennis wilderness. For the first time
in seven years he has given England
quarter finalist i'll her national cham-
pionship. and, more than that, he went
even to the semi-tlnalS.
Austin Beat Good Ones.
In fighting his way to meeting with
Jean Borotra of France Austin defeated
Frank Hunter, United States; Jacques
Brugnon, France, and Baron Won
Kehrling, Hungary. This is easily the
most impressive piece OF work an Eng
hshman has turned in on the courts
since the war, even more encouragins
than j. C. GregoryS victory IN the
Australian championship last WINTER.
When it is realized that England mas
not produced winner OF her own
championship at Wimbledon since l9o9
one can get faint idea how much they
are delighted with the great work OF
Austin. From 1909 on the title mas
been in the hands Of either an Austria
liam. an American, or trenchmah'
and for a country once supreme III Ten
mis- and the founder of the game, as
England was, that hurts.
Austin has been in the pubic eye rs
a tennis player for number OF years
but no one ever thought he would get SO
nh rYltn thought
be strong enough to stand the gad OF
championship play. But what maze
Austin was the coaching he goS nom
Karel KoZeluh, CzechoSlovaklan pro-
fqssional. For the last two years, koze-
uh. whom American tennis fans saw IN
this country in 1928, has been coachlng
the English Davis Cup team. and Tor
two weeks before Wimbledon he worked
with Austin daily.
improved Austin Physically.
These workouts with the great Eu-
ropean professional helped Austin not
only 10 improve his technique ana cor
rect his faults. but improved MS phys
ical condition and stamina. After
standing of so steady player as koze-
Iuh. a stone wall on defense, for hours
each dav. Austin was able to last the
full route in his matches at Wimbledon
and to plav as strong game in the last
set as in the first. This was something
he seldom had been able to do before
and much of the credit goes to Kozeluh.
Not only Austin but all the mem
bers of the English team, which Is now
in the final round of the European zone
Davis Cup ties, have benefited by koze-
luh's instruction. Gregory is mucn
improved player since Karel began TO
help him, and Nigel Sharpe. another
conner. has toned up his game conslo-
erably in the last year. HIS victory
over Baron de Morpurgi, 1taly'S star
ace. was hailed almost as enthusiastic
allv bv the English fans as Austlns
triumph over Hunter.
England is definitely going up the lad
der in tennis, and good coaching has
started her after years of disaster on
The courts. The United States has be-
gun to realize the wisdom of putting
Young players under competent teachers,
and If it is to hold it own with France,
England and Germany in the inter-
national arena it must give up-comlng
hopeflls the benefit of the same COM
petent coaching the young players are
getting on the other side.
(Copyright, 1929. by North American News
paper Alliance)