Although the red-haired Californian won both the previous meetings, he had to go all out to take the measure of the German in the filth and decisive match in the Davis Cup, which some sports writers have described as the greatest tennis battle of all time.
For nearly two and a half hours the duel lasted until Budge, weary and perspiration soaked, whipped a backhander past von Cramm as he came to the net for the winning point.
The American had never had to make such a fight since the days of Fred Perry. He had to strain every atom of muscle and mind.
Budge survived the hardest match in which he. had ever to take part because of ttis''magnificent big match temperamen® and this is expected again to carry him to another tennis crown.—Reuter
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.