The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-02
PERRY FAVORED EASY WINNER
 OF NET GROWN
Bndge Is FOrlOrn Hope for America in Tennis
 Play
By LESLIE AVERY

United Press stan Correspondent
 Forest Hills, N. F., Sept. 2 (UPO- J. Donald Budge, rrel-topped Cali fOfnian, stood out today at the lone and apparently forlorn-American hope of preventing the national sine Rles tennis crown from sailing across the Atlantic to England cooked on the headeof Frederick J. Perry.
 Budge, outstanding American rac- Uuet Wielder, was viewed as an easy obstacle for Perry to surmount in view of the Englishman's crushing four set victory over Budge in the Wimbledon mi-finals. The dark haired, debonair Perry, husband of aii, American movie actress. is out to win his third leg on the U. s. title and permanent possession of the trophy that goes with 1t.
 When he squares of against the field as championship play opens to- morrow, Perry will be an odds on favortte to succeed I1on-defending titleholder, Winner Allison of Austin, Tex, kept in the grand stand by an injured back.
 Out for Blood
 Budge, still sInarting under the slaellacking dished out by Perry in the English title play, Is determined upon revenge. He has withdrawn from singles competition in two re- cent Eastern tournaments to keep from going stale. And 1t is pos- sibility, however, remote, that he might rise to the same heights that Allison did last year in defeating Perry at Forest Hills.
 Second man in the U. s. defense line is Bryan Grant, Jr., of Atlanta, Ga, but the mighty mites retrieving style of play was duck soup for those forehand flashing drives turned loose by Perry at Wimbledon.
 For the second consecutive year, with an eye upon prospective gate receipts, the U.S.L.T.A. decided to hold the mems and women's singles play jointly.
 Pick Miss Jacobs
 Helen Jacobs of Berkeley, Calif.. holder of both the Wimbledon and U. s. women's singles titles, was fa- vofed to successfully defend her American crown. Her conquest at Wimbledon made her the logical choice for the 1936 title in view ot her arch rival, Helen Wills Moody's decision not to enter.
 'gopmost challenger to la Jacobs world tennis supremacy is Kath- crime Stammers of England, ranked as one of the greatest all around women players in the game. She is ranked No. 1 in England along with Dorothy Round. She has won the English doubles championship with Miss Freda James for the last two years. As 8 member of the Union Jacks Wightman Cup team, she de- feated Miss Jacobs 5-7, 6-l, 9-7 this spring.
 Stages Comeback
 Another woman player of whom great things are expected is Alice Marble of Los Angeles. Miss Marble, returning to the tennis wars after 4ACAIAy wv yCdLo aboChSC bCNaAoS of Illness, gave the experts big jolt by breeding through the field to win the Seabyight championship recent ly. She was ranked No. 3 in 1883 and her comeback is the subject of wide interest.
 Only other country beside Eng land to seriously contend for U. s. title Is France who sent four of her stalwarts across the water for shot at Allison's undefended crown. They are Bernard Destremeau, sensation al 18-year- player of the year; Pierre Pelizza and Won Pietra, new corners to international play; and the veteran Jacques Brugnon.
 Germany had planned to send the Baron Gottfried von Cramrn, Hein- CT Henkel, Kay Lund and Marie Horn, but when Cramm, ranked No. 2 in the world, twisted his back, 1t was decided not to send any of the deleRation.