Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-22
Hoad and RosewaII
To Meet Americans
In Title Match Today

BROOKLINE, Mass, Aug. 81.
-Masterful teamwork aided by
a signal system sent Americas
Davis Cup pair of Vic Seixas and
Tony Trabert into the finals of
the National doubles tennis tour
nament today with sparkling
IS, 8-6, ST, Cd victory over
Australia's Rex Hartwig and
Neale Fraser.
The two-hour, 15-minute
struggle which prevented an all
Australian mems finish, sends
Americas top : seeded team
against the Aussies' No. l tan
dem of Lew Hoad and Ken Rose
wall tomorrow. The top Aussie
team defeated Bill Talbert, New
York, and Hamilton Richardson,
Baton Rouge, La, 60, Ga,
12-10.
Louise Brough of Beverly Hills,
Calf, and Mrs. Margaret Os-
borne dupont of Wilmington,
Del, beat England's Ann Shilock
and Helen Fletcher, 6-1, 60,
for the right to meet the defend
ing champions, Doris Hart OF
Coral Gables, Fla, and Shirley
Fry of Akron, Ohio, in the wom-
ems final.
Pressure on Hartwig.
Seixas, the veteran Philadel-
phian. and Trabert, the young
ster from Cincinnati, boldly set
out to put the pressure on the
Aussies' great doubles man,
Hartwig, letting the 20-year-old
1efthander Fraser make his own
misplays.
With Trabert's smashing SER
vice and net rushing and Seixas'
skilled moves made by prear-
ranged signals, the pair show
cred impossible shots at Hart
wigs feet or placed them in
areas where his returns were
made off-balance and went into
the net.
Leading two sets to one, Vic
and Tony broke HartWig's SER
vice on the first game on the
final set and won the match in
the 10th game when Trabert
served a love game.
In the first two sets, Seixas
and Trabert broke their oppon-
ents' service in the 18th game
and followed through to win.
Trabert'S crosscourt placement
broke HartWig in the first set.
After the teams exchanged
breaks in the fourth and fifth
games, Trabert then served for
victory, forcing Fraser to muH
O retrieve shot at set point.
Aussies Rally In Third.
Hartwig and Fraser. who had
won the only two previous tour
naments they had played in to-
gether, rallied to take the third
set by breaking Seixas' service in
the fourth and 18th games.
Hoad and Rosewall broke Rich
ardson's service in the 21st game
of the third set with the aid of
two double faults by Ham. Then
Hoad. holding his service,
smashed a shot off Richardson's
racquet for match point.
Though the Americans grew
stronger and more confident as
the match progressed. they could
not succeed in cracking Rose
walls service. They also could
do little with Hoads service as
the muscular. blond Aussie ace
dominated play with his place
ments and added to the effective
ness of Rosewall's game with his
constant poaching threat.
Talbert appeared to wrench
his shoulder late in the match
but was not hurt.
ID. C. Senior Player Loses.
Miss Shilock and Miss Fetch
er held service only twice and
broke Mrs. DUPONT in the fourth
game of the second set. Miss
Brough and Mrs. DUPONT won
eight straight games as they had
the English girls on the run.
Richardson came back right
after his match with the Aus
tralians to win the father and
son championships with his
dad. Roger Richardson. 1913,
6-3, over James S. and James
M. Farrin of Waban, Mass.
Edward Chandler and Gerald
Stratford of San Francisco won
the senior mems doubles for the
second year in a row by defeat
ing C. Alphonso Smith of Wash
ington, D. c., and Edward ia
cobs of Baltimore, GO, 6-3.
During the afternoon the ten
mis- service bowl given annually
for service and devotion to ten
mis- went to Mrs. Richard Buck
of Manchester, Mass.