Evening star., 1947-08-31
Aussiie Net Aces
Bow 10 Kramer
And Schroeder
U. S. Victory Appears
Assured as Pals,
Bromwich Lose
By GoyIe ToIbot
Assorio}ed presx Snoytx Wr;t.r

FOREST HILLS. N. Y, Aug. 3d.
The high hopes of Australia's Davis
Cuppers went smash again today,
and the huge international tennis
trophy appeared to be safely slowed
away in the land of it's origin for
at least another year after the two
Californians. Jack Kramer and Ted
Schroeder. battered their way to
victory in the opening singles
matches.
Kramer opened the flood gates
with crushing 60, 81, 6-2 win
over curly-haired Dinny Pals, the
Australian champion, and Schroeder
then came through with the second
half of Uncle Sans famous one-two
punch as he charged the net off and
on for more than two hours and
humbled Jack Bromwich, 6-4, 81,
6-3, Ga.
The results thus were duplicate
of the first days play at Melbourne
last December, when the American
pair brought back the cup after it
had been in Australia for seven
years. The only difference was that
Big Jake and the tireless Ted did it
easier this time.
Pals Overwhelmed.
Kramer, the greatest amateur in
the world by far today, simply over
Whelmed Pals. It never was a con-
test from the moment Kramer I'M
limbered his terrific all-court game.
Pals scored only nine placements
in the entire match, and it was
mercifully over after only So min
utes.
Schroeder, to the surprise Of the
experts, made easier work of Brom-
wich than he did eight months ago,
when the Aussie star carried him
the limit of five sets. Except for the
second set. Ted gave the impress
sion all the way that he was play
ing within himself and would win
any point, or half dozen points,
that he deemed necessary.
Ted's service was vastly superior
to Bromwich's soft delivery, and
this made a vital difference in the
games that might have been called
crucial. When he really needed to
hold his service, he did it. In the
third set, where Schroeder went
ahead to stay, he blazed across six
aces and virtually handcuffed
Bromwich with as many other
scorchers.
Bromwich scored only one serv-
ice ace in the entire match. Mostly
he just put the ball in play. This
glaring handicap, coupled with his
complete inability for long stages
to keep Schroeder away from the
net, made his cause hopeless.
Good Spectator Match.
In each of the last two sets
Schroeder bestirred himself to break
through Bromwich's delivery early
and then simply banged his own
across until he had run up the
necessary six games. There were
many long, exciting rallies and it
was a good spectator match, but
Schroeder never gave his followers
any cause for worry.
Five games from the end, Ted
smashed one away at the net with
particular gusto and sprang a pain
full cramp in his racket hand. He
appeared very unhappy, but it did
not affect his game markedly.
Between games a masseur busted
out from under the stands and gave
the hand a brisk rubbing. A mem
Der of the Australian squad pointed
out afterWard that this was some
what irregular. but there was no
protest.
Schroeder expressed confidence
that the effects of the cramp would
not bother him In tomorrow's doubles
match, in which he and Kramer
were scheduled to meet Bromwich
and Colin Long. The odds appeared
long tonight that the two Cali
fornia buddies would win the re-
quired third point tomorrow and
relegate Mondays concluding singles
matches to the exhibition tent.