The Archive · 1932

Briti Women Beat Records

London, July 9. for ye fer}

Notts' 204 and 66 for one. wich between Staffordshire at Stafford, resulted ina 200 and 142 for Tndia 162 and 94 for six.

At Tunbridge Wells, Ko fla fag Tunbridge Welle Kent son 'Two world's records were broken doring the British women's athletie championships at' Stamford Bridge to-day.

Miss Johnson, of the Bolton, Harmers, did the 100 yards in seconds dead, beating the previous record of 111-5 sec, held by Mile. Radidbo of France, The other new record fas established in the 440 yards, when Miss Halstead of Bury covered distance in 66 4-5 sec, beating her own previous record of 88 4.

Reuter, At Taunton, Leicester: won on the frst innings againat: Somerset, Leicester 209 and 198 for five.

Somerset 285 (Astill ive for 63).

The Gentlemen and Playes the Oval resulted ina dra.

"ent men 452 for Seven, declared six, ded (Hendren 194 not out, Sandham 88, Hearne 0 beat Derbyshire!

234 (Townsen 159 for five declared 54) ana ka' (Sinbles "five for 42, Iddon five for 31).

Yorkshire won by 183] Gloucester, ing 'a British Aston Martin car, [scored a triumphant success in the great 24-hour speed battle ov the Mans circuit on Sunday 1a by winning the challenge cup of, the Touring Club de L'Ouest, offered for com)

petition between' the five made the best performance last year's race over the Northants Worcester Mito? @ a Gloucester w1e2i 2 36

Edinburgh, July 9.

Scotland defeated the South Am. orleans by eight wickets in a cricket match here, The scores were:—South Ameri cans 220 and 208; Scotland 845 and 84 for two.—Reuter.

However, Fred Perry took the to make the scores He ' defeated von' Cramm easily by 6-1, 6-2, 6-3, "There was also a surprising result at Milan, where Jiro Satoh, who had done extremely well in the Wimbledon, champions? lost to Geo die"stefant in straight setts.

The wee aH Ody Ohne japan) defeated Palmer! (italy), the opening. match, Kuwabara

62 1-6, 8 July 9.

At Berlin, Fred Perry and G. P, Hughes put Britain ahead afternoon by defeating Prenn and Dessart in straight setts, 0-3, 6-8, 6-4, while at Milan Japan took the Jead when Jiro Satoh and Re Miki won "in. easy. fashion against Palmieri and' Sertorio, The score was 6-4, +f, 6:3, July 10, The semi-final round in the Euro-bein Zone of the Davis Cup tournament produced two surprising results, Germany eliminating Great Britain by three matches to two and and Italy defeating Japan by the same margin, H. W. Austin, who reached th final of the men's singles at Wim-bredon, failed to win a single match at Berlin against Germany, On the opening day, he lost to D, Prenn by three setts to one, and to-day, he failed against von Cram, ~The score was 5-7, 0-2, 6-3, 6-2, Fred Perry, who beat' von Cramm in the easiest fashion on. the first day, succumbed to D. Prenn's hard anying and serving this afternoon, 'The match went the full five setts Jand was replete with thrills, Perry /made a marvellous recovery, only to be narrowly beaten, 'The score W 6-2, G4, 3-0, 0-6, 7-5, Germany thus' qualified for the final by 3 matches to 2.

There was a similar surprise at Milan, where Italy won both singles {to-day "and. so. eliminated Japan. JJiro Satoh, who reached the last four against very strong opposition Jat Wimbledon, was expected to do things for Japan, but, ale, helping to win the doubles, ingles matches, As expected, G. de St not extended t6 beat Kuwak lost by, 6-2, 6-2, O-4, However, Paimieri's win over, Satoh was great performance, The Italian was two setts down before he had warm-fed up, but, once he got the measure lof his opponent, he swept every. naplted: tennis. "in, the last three thing before him. Palmieri, played

setts and kept Satoh running up and down. The Japanese was a very tired man at the finish, The score was 4:6, 4-6, Gel, 6-1, 6-2——Renter,

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