Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-20
CONQUER ITALIANS
|N.THREE MATCHES
Spotty Play Marks Doubles
Contest, Captured by Al
Iison and Van Ryn.
BY SMITH r. REAVIS,
Associated Press Stan Writer.

A UTEUL, France, July 49,
~ America overcame a fight
n ing Italian tennis team to-
day to enter the challenge
round for the Davis Cup.
Adding two more victories to
the one achieved yesterday in the
opening match Of the interzone
final, the United States forces
chalked up the three victories
necessary to clinch the series. To-
morrow'S two singles cannot at
feet the result and the Ameri-
cans will clash with the French
for the trophy here next Friday,
Saturday and Sunday.
As usual, however, the South Euro
peans upset all the locker room gossip.
Baron Humbert de Morpurgo, wnom
win from George Lott of Chicago. was
beaten by scores of 3-S, 81, 10-S,
63, In a match which was interrupted
by darkness yesterday, with the Amer
lean leading at two sets to one.
Doubles Hard Fought.
The Trieste nobleman then paired
with Placido Gaslini in a last-n1inute
shift of the doubles lineup and gave
the crack American combination OF
John Van Ryn, East Orange, N. j., and
Wilmer Allison, Austin, Tex, one OF
the hardest tussels they have had in
many a day. The match went to five
sets, provided some brilliant but spotty
tennis and ended with the Americans
on top by scores of So, GO, Ga,
Is, 63.
Tomorrow, in the anti-climax, John
Doeg of Santa Monica, Calf, will be
substituted for Allison against De Nor
purge and Lott will face Georgia de
Stefani, who forced Allison to i've hard
sets yesterday.
changed his tactics overnight and de-
cided on q desperate effort to win the
doubles rather than trust to the chance
| of singles win over Lott. AT any rate,
for his one set against the Chicagoan,
he stuck to the baseline and refused to
be enticed into racing over the court
for pretty ones as he did yesterday.
The baron won the first, fifth and
sixth games, but Lott had the others
his own way. The Italian was never
within mile of victory.
When it came to doubles, De Morpurgo
was another man. He shot vicious
drives from the baSeline straight be-
tween the Americans, played singing
was formidable at the net. GaSimi was
cratic in the first few games Of the
opening set, but rallied toward the end
and the Italians ran 1t from "a to o
win at rs.
Both Allison and Van Ryn thumped
the ball hard, but they could not seem
to find the range and neither had an
effective first service.
The Texas-Princeton machine began
to click normally In the second set and
it clicked some more in the third.
Allison seemed to discover the holes he
had missed in the earlier frame and
time after time a sharp drive that
barely cleared the net, a croSs-volley
or a resounding smash left the Italians
! reaching into empty air.
Gaslini Improves.
Van Ryn, weak in the back court,
was redoubtable at the net and while
De Morpurgo and Gaslini never faulter-
ed in their attack. these two sets were
fairly easy for the Americans.
The fourth set was a different story.
Gaslini, reaching top form at this late
stage, Showered unreachable placements
from every section of the court and
while his partner seemed to lose a bit
Of his edge Gaslini carried the attack
so heavily into the American camp
that Allison anc Van Ryn got only one
game.
Ellison bore the brunt of the Italian
attack in the final frame and while his
service let him down couple Of times
he was pretty generally the master of
the situation. The set was enlivened
for a moment when De Morpurgo ex-
changed some words from the court
with the American captain, Fritz
Eugene Dixon, of Philadelphia. who was
sitting under the referees chair, and
the crowd began q combination of
| cheers and whistles.
The incident, If it was one, ended
quickly, but the Italians from that time
on seemed to lose their grip. They
| fought valiantly to the end, however,
and 1t was not until the last point was
called that they stopped battling.
In an exhibition match afterward,
Bill T1den and Gregory Mangin Of
Newark N I siihsfitIIta On &i,a