Evening star., 1939-06-26
Riggs and Austin
Both Advancein
Wimbledon Tourney
Smith, Anderson and
Cooke Also Win WAY
Through First Round
By the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
WIMBLEDON, England, June &c.
Bobby Riggs, Americas top ranking
amateur showing more fire than at
any time since arriving in England,
rushed through three sets in 40 min
utes to defeat ]. Dhamija of India,
6-3, 60, Ga, and enter the second
round of the all-England tennis
championships today. Bobby never
even removed his sweater.
Elwood Cooke of Portland, Oreg.
rallied from a poor start to defeat
Veteran Christian Boussus, left
handed Frenchman, 10, Ga, 60,
6-3, in the first round of the all
England tennis championships to-
day.
Cooke, who is seeded 7th in the
tourney. gained his victory before
a crowd of 5000, which included
Queen Mother Mary, in Wimble-
don's center court.
Bunny Takes Two Hours.
England's H. w. Bunny Austin,
the favorite, eliminated youthful
Joseph Asboth of Hungary but it
took him two hours to do it, 6-l.
Ga, 1910.
Austin's well placed drives forced
Asboth into countless errors in the
first set. The young Hungarian
broke through Bunny's service in the
first and fifth games for a 40 lead
IN the second but then the English
veteran started racing to the net
and took four games in row.
Asboth came back In the third
from "a to SIS as light rain be-
gan to fall. In the next 10 games,
Asboth twice came from love 40 to
win but with the score standing at
10 all, Austin finally held his own
service and broke through Asboth
again in the twenty second for the
set and match.
Smith and Anderson Win.
Gene Smith of Berkeley, Calf,
and Owen Anderson of Los Angeles
Joined Cooke and Austin in the sec
ond round. Smith whipped Eddie
Andrews of New Zealand, 90, 6-3,
Ga, after fumbling start, while
Anderson eliminated M. E. Lucking
OF Great Britain, IS, 81, IS.
Anderson had hard fight in the
first set when Lucking's deep drives
bothered him. However, he caught
hold in the second and nearly
swept the diminutive Briton off the
court. Sloppy work cost Anderson
points in the third but got stronger
as the match went on. After being
checked at all, he ran out the
match with two love games.
Large Crowd Out.
Despite a mediocre mems field. a
large crowd turned out for the
opening days play.
McNeill's first round opponent was
K. Aschner of Hungary. Other
matches involving United States
players:
Elwood Cooke. Portland, Oreg., VS..
Christian Boussus, France.
Riggs VS.. j. Dhamija, India.
Bill Robertson, California, VS.. Otto
S1geti, Hungary.
Gene Smith, Los Angeles, VS.. Ed
Andrews, New Zealand.
Owen Anderson. Los Angeles, VS..
M. E. Lucking, England.
There were two unexpected with
drawals. Charles Hare, British
Davis Cup player. and Kho Sin Kie
OF China, British hard courts cham
pion, both withdrew because of in
jured backs.
Queen Mother Mary Arrives.
Queen Mother Mary, dressed all !
IN white and armed with her IA
nous parasol, arrived and took her
place in the royal box as Boussus
gave Cooke only one game in WIN
ming the first set, 6-l.
Results Of f1rst-round matches;
Roderich Menzel, Germany, de-
feated E. c. Peters, Great Britain,
6-1, 60, 60.
Jacques Brugnon, France, defeat
ed F.. H. D. Wilde, Great Britain,
6-1, 6-3, 316, 6-3.
F. Cejnar, Bohemia and Moravia,
defeated Andre Gentien, France,
6-1, 81, 60.
H. J. Etchart, Argentina, defeated
B. Royds, Great Britain, IS, 6-1,
60.
Eugene Smith, Berkeley, Calf,
defeated Eddie Andrews, New Zea-
land, 3-6, So, 63, Ga.
Elwood Cooke, Portland, Oree.
defeated Christian Boussus, France,
Is, Ga, 60, 6-3.