Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-06-10
JOHNSON JOINS VICTORIOUS
AMERICAN TENNIS TEAM
Former intercollegiate Cham
pion VIII Play in English Tour
ney With U. S. A. Boys.
M'LOUGHLIN'S VICTORY
PUTS AUSTRALIANS OUT
Young Williams, After Bad
Start, Beats Rice, Giving
Yankees All Singles.

NEW YORK, June 10-Wallace F.
Johnson, of Philadelphia, who was
formerly the intercollegiate tennis
champion, sailed on the steamship
Kronprinzessin Cicile for England
as the first of four prominent Amer
lean players who will enter the All
England championship tournament,
which begins on the courts at VIM
bledon, near London, on Monday,
June %. AS announced, Maurice E.
Mclaughlin, the Californian; r.
Norris Williams, the young Harvard
player, and Harold H. Hackett, of
New York, who have just defeated
the Australians in the Davis cup pre-
liminary, will follow next Thursday
on the steamer Baltic to complete
the quartet of American entrants
and, incidentally, to get practise for
the later rounds in the Davis cup
competitions
The Americans will meet Germany
In the next round of the elimination
series for the cup, the Teutons hav-
ing downed France last week
Mclaughlin proved such fiery
opponent yesterday in adding the
third decisive point to the American
score in the Davis cup preliminary
that the Australians dubbed him "the
California comet" His admirers
among his own countrymen today
could find no words too strong for
his praise, and insisted that with
out doubt he was proving himself to
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over. If there were any who posed
as critics of his work it was on the
ground that his defense was not quite
as sire ng as his service. His fore
hand cross-court passing stroke was
wonderfully accurate, but his back
hand stroke was sometimes made too
close to the body, handicapping its
effectiveness.
However, it was Mclaughlin who
Knocked the Davis cup aspirations of
the Antipodeans into a cooked hat
when he won the third match for the
United States against the redouot-
able Doust, captain Of the invaders
n straight sets, Ga, Ga, So.
Williams, the youngest member of
ne home team, added hard earned
7ictory at the expense of the diminu-
Ave Rice in match that took the
zhole five sets by scores of 1-6, 4-6,
3-1, 81, g.
Doust played in a style that sur
prised most of the crowd. He handled
lightning service much
better than was expected, and the
American did not have such an easy
time of it in breaking through the
service. The American
won all five of his service games in
she opening set, while Doust took
tour of his. Mclaughlin broke
I through in the third game, when
Doust could get only one point on an
nut by the American, and it was just
that margin that gave him the vic
tory in the first set.
In the second set it was again a
battle of service. Mclaughlin dupli-
Gated his performance of the first !
by taking five games On his own serv- I
Ice. He overcame Doust's service in
he fifth game The turning point in
favor of Mclaughlin came here when
he made a wonderful get" with his
back guard for lob. Doust got the
ball in position for an easy kill,
put he dropped the ball into the net.
This gave Mclaughlin his opening
Tor a lead. In the next game Doust
ed at 40-15. but the American re-
fused to let himself be beaten on his
service and he carried it along to
the tenth point, when he forced
Doust to shoot one into the net for a
point in his favor that gave him the
upper hand again. Doust came right
back by serving a love game, but 1t
VAS his last flash for he could do
nothing in the next two games that
served, although he won
his own service in the ninth game.
Doust showed some strength for
he firyt three games of the third set.
eading at to l. Here Mclaughlin
ore ahead at terrific pace and ran
,ut Ave games straight. When the
asst stroke was made Doust rushed
,ver to his rival and grasped him by
he hand. then taking megaphone !
le called for three cheers from the /
rowd for the American team. This |
IRA cious bit of courtesy was en- !
husiastfeally received by the specta-
ors.
Rice ST artled the gathering by taxi
ng the rst two sets from the hard
lifting williams. The American be-
IAN as if he were going to settle the
-isitor in a hurry by taking the first
,ame in overwhelming fashion, Rice, /
la wing much better than he did last |
week, won the next six games How !
loosely fought they were, though, may |
,e judged from the fact that five of !
he six went to deuce Williams
ooked little better in the second |
,et, but the Australian played along
With bulldog pluck and ran away with !
wo games in very convincing style
tfter the score stood at all.
The third set was the~best fought !
me of the whole match. 1t was nip
ind tDsk from first to last. Will
ans lei at 5-3 and seemed a GER
ain victor, but Rice served a love
ga me and then brought it up to deuce
~ getting through Williams's serv-
ce. Finally the Australian led at
to and had Williams 4O-l5.
Iust ene more point was needed for
linn 10 take the match. Williams did