The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-07-09
STRAIGHT SET VICTORY GAINED
 VERY EASILY
Needs One More Win to Own $l,zOO Lumsden
 Trophy

Locust Valley, L. T., July S.-a Frankie Parker and Gene Mako, two orphans of the storm, wandered all over Long Island today looking for court on which to thrash out the Eastern mems singles clay court championship tennis final after 8 series of thundershower had made the Jackson Heights Tennis Clubs surfaces unplayable. They wound up at the Piping Rock club, twentyA five miles away, later in the after- noon, and Parker, pushing his game up to a pinnacle of unanswerable brilliance, crushed his fellow Davis Cup player 6-2, 6-2, 60.
 Parker's victory brought him his second leg on the massive Jackson Heights cup, a converted yaching trophy, which the late Jerry Lums- den, former tournament director of the Eastern, picked up at an auction several years ago. One more leg and Parker will be able to claim the $l,200 worth of silver in the mug as his own.
 The doubles crown went to Jackie Kramer and Ted Schroeder, the youthful national championship combination from California. They swept through Parker and Charles Mattmann of the University of Southern California varsity, T-5, I6-S, 6-2.
 Surprise Critics
 To his severest critics, the fellows who fail to see any improvement in his forehand this season or de- clare that he can't stand up against speed. Parker might very well have dedicated his match with Mako. He did everything and did 1t well. His anticipation was uncanny and the bad shots he made throughout the entire match might easily have been counted on one hand. His shots off either side, whether they were of the booming variety which sought his opponents baSeline or just crept over the net, were impeccabie. Mako tried everything against him, but Mako's everything just wasn't enough.
 There was little semblance of a battle on the green composition surface after the early stages of the first set. Mako broke through Parker's service to even the count at 1-all, but as later events proved, this was actually tlhe only time he was in there with the ghost of Q chance. Parker took the next five games for the first set.
 In the second, Parker raced through four more for a 70 ad- vantage before Mako was able to hold his own service. Mako won the next game, but Parker bore down and the second set went the same way as the first.
 Double Checked
 The third set was pitiful, with Parker permitting Mako eight scant points while racing through six straight games. Mako was weary to the point of collapse and played what amounted to purely defensive tennis during the entire set. Parker kept putting the balls away right to the end. scoring on his own shots rather than on Mako's errors.
 Parker, like Mrs. Sarah Palfrey Cooke, of New York, who was crowned Eastern womens singles champion on Tuesday, didn't lose a set during the entire tournament. He beat. among others, Joe Fish- bach,, Ted Olewine, one of the cur- rent crop of California collegians, and Kramer. Olewine was of the opinion that no one vii lbeat Parker this season and that the fifth-rank- ing player in the nation Is due to win the national championship un- less Parker plays himself out before the Forest Hills tournament.