Last Of The Great Tennis Championships September sees the end

of many things in sport. The last of the great tennis championships is played at Forest Hills and, while we sympathise with Perry in his failure to retain his American championship for a third year, we are glad to congratulate that master of court tactics and fine fighter, Allison, on his well
earned success. He deserved to win, even if Perry did not deserve to lose. He has made it difficult for those people who consider themselves competent to compile " ranking " lists to put Nos. 2, 3, 4 and 5 in their proper order. Perry is still safe on top, but what of Allison and Austin, Cramm and Crawford?..
In the American wirrnen's championship the results were hardly unexpected. In most games you have to be just about twice as good as the Americans to beat them in America. Our representatives were far from that. The Misses Round, Stammers and Seriven are good. but, on their form either in the championship or in the Wightman Cup, they were not good enough. Again, the championship found a very deserving winner in Miss Jacobs and again the " rankers " will have their work cut out deciding whether she or Mrs. Moody is Number One.
Lawson Golf Film
In golf, Lawson Little, by equalling a Jones' record, went far to prove himself the best amateur golfer since the redoubtable Bobby, who, though he is still as good as ever, is barred from playing as an amateur because he gave the secrets of his success to the world in a film for which he was paid. It was a good film and very well made; if it had been a poor book, very badly written, he would still have been considered worthy to associate with you and me. Of course it's daft, but, well, never mind. . . Lawson Little has now won both the British and American amateur championships in two successive years. He looks good enough to do it again and so beat Jones' record; that is, of course, unless somebody persuades him to make a film too.
Padgham, after a phenomenally successful year in 1934, and a pretty good one in 1933 ran into a comparatively bad patch this year. He just missed everything all the time except the eyes of the P.G.A. selectors picking out the players for the Ryder cup team. Their wisdom in picking him was proved in the last of the big competitions when, in the £1,250 professional match-play championship he won handsomely from the finest of fields playing better and keener golf than our professionals have shown since the war.
Ryder Cup Team
The P.G.A. have done a pretty good job in the team they have picked to represent us in America in the Ryder cup competition. Probably the only way it could have been strengthened would have been by the inclusion of Henry Cotton, but they chose to leave him out rather than rescind the rule that excluded Alliss a few years ago. As a team it relies more upon performance than upon reputation. With the exception of Perry they are all orthodox stylists and are at least as powerful a combination as any playing golf at present. That does not mean that they will retain the Ryder cup at Ridgewood, New Jersey. As we said earlier in another connection, you need to he about twice as good as the Americans to beat them in America. They are probably a better -team than the Americans, but they are not twice as good as the Americans. They will probably put up a better show than any side that has gone before, hut we cannot see them winning; having said which, with hand on heart, we can add that this is one of the times when we sincerely hope events will prove us Wrong. If there is anything in omens, we would add that we never expected them to provide the last four in the match-play championship, but they did.