Ladislav. Hecht, formerly of Czecho-Slovakia, and Frank Bowden of New York advanced to the final round of the Kings County tennis championship yesterday at the Knickerbocker Field Club in Brooklyn, says recent issue of the New Yo "Times."
Neither of yesterday's semi-finals measured up to high quality of competition aniti¢ipated for this round. Sutter, who fseéd the uncompromising Bowden, lacked the fire to resist the bombarding attack of the stalwart New Yorker, and was eliminated forthwith at 6-2, 6-4, Elwood Cóoke of Portland, Ore, has been ticketed to face Hecht in the upper semi-final, but the Wim-[Betbn finalist withdrew in the quarter-finals, the explanation being that business had called him out of town, N He played a private exhibition match with J. Donald Budge yesterday, ds was reported, it would seem that other corsidérations endered into his retirement from the Brooklyh competition. Rumor has it that Cooke is on the verge of giving Yip amateur tennis,
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