Evening star., 1914-08-09

America put no team in the field. and
Great Britain, having defeated France
! met the Australians and by the prli-
liant play Of J. 6 parke; ct this Sea year es.
! feated Heath. they won. to 2.
in spite of the fact that Brookes
and Dunlop defeated Beamish and
! Parke in the doubles In 1913 Amer
f, ica, Canada. Australia. Germany. Bel
! GUM South Africa and France all had
i teams in, but the Americans finally
came through with Mclaughlin. Norris
/; son, defeating the Australians. Nc
| Loughlin beating Rice and Williams
i beating Doust, and then Mclaughlin
and Williams winning their other SIN
| gle matches The doubles were lost.
The Americans then met Germany in
England and defeated them, McLough-
lin beating FroetZheim and Williams
beating kreutzer. Mclaughlin and
Hackett winning the doubles and Will
! liams and Wallace johnson the singles.
Canada meantime had beaten South
Africa and Belgium, which brought the
two America and Canada together.
| Williams defeated Schwenger: Nc
Loughlin defeated Powell. and Nc
Loughlin and Hackett won the dou
bles. All these We're in three straight
sets. Great Britain presented as de-
tenders of the cup ]. {. Parke, Dixon
and Roper Barrett. The Americans
/
however. defeating both Williams and
Mclaughlin in the singles, but Nc
Loughlin and Hackett won in the
doubles.
| Thursday Friday and Saturday of this
week our tennis stars. Mclaughlin. Will
liams. Behr and Bundy. will defend the
cup on the courts of the West Side Club.
1t certainly seems as If their chances for
success had improved in the last two
ks Tua,
effects of high condition in the early
season for the sake OF the Wimbledon
| contests, and. instead of improving. lately
they have been going back, and have
recognized it. On the other hand, our
players. particularly Mclaughlin, are
coming every minute and every day, and
it looks as If McIoughlins chances to
avenge himself could not be better, and
that the odds in favor of his accounting
for two of the singles are decidedly
strong That will leave only one other
single or the double to win and with VIII
| liams in shape. no matter how the dou-
| bies come out, that should he more than
a possibility.
| On the whole. il will be a very good
| test of the question how long a player
may keep at the top of his game and
whether it is better to make a campaign
| short one or long one. If our men
had met the challengers the end of the
! first week in July the betting, to any one
who had seen the Wimbledon matches,
would have been strongly against us.
/ Now. can our opponents who were pretty
close to the top of their game at that
time. maintain the pace as well as our
men. who were considerably short of real
tournament work then. but who are now
| in condition to play the game of their
lives? McLoughlins chances to win lie
in his marvellous energy and persistence
Almost every player is apt to let down
after a hard point has been scored. or
when he has. from being behind. crept
up into the lead. or when. perhaps. he
has just stalled rush of his opponents
Then is the time that the average tennis
player loses to the man who knows that
every point counts and means to gather
together just as many as possible NC
Loughlin is serious every time, and this
year he is fit and promises to make the
effort of his life.
Williams is a wholly different type and
we may expect to see him play differ
ent kind Of game. His strokes are easier
He never seems to put as much effort
in as Mclaughlin and he is far from be-
ing as careful TO lose as few points as
possible. He is very apt to make his
supporters feel incensed at what seems
to be carelessness. If Williams is su-
perior TO the other man, his game has Il
fair chance to win out. but Mclaughlin
can win out at times in the face of great
odds. Williams is apt to drop points
which may cost him dear. but his strokes
were learned in another school and a
school where form counts. and, in the
and earnest about winning, he is going to
be one of our hardest men to beat.
So the transatlantic fight of the
America is postponed until October. aft
er a careful and thorough conference
between William Cash. representative of
Rodman Wanamaker, Glenn Curtiss and
Lieut. Porte. The reasons are conclusive.
With two engines. Lieut. Porte original
ly believed that 200 gallons of gasoline
would be sufficient to take the America
to the Azores Before the final trial he
believed that 300 gallons would easily
carry the America with its three err
sines for the first lap of the flight Then
ne made trip of forty-four miles to
Penn Yam and back. and found that the
calculations were altogether too op
| timistic. The America ate gasoline at the
rate of a gallon to four miles, and this
caused the lieutenant to revise his fig
ures and find that it would take 400
gallons. weighing some 2.450 pounds. as
the smallest amount that would carry
him the 1900 miles to the Azores with
any reasonable margin for drift and
difficulty in finding the island Now as
this would bring the total weight of the
America up close to 1000 pounds. and
as this is considerably more than its
three engines have been able to life, the
| trip is postponed for further expert
| menting and consideration.
In THIS connection let me revert once
more to the prediction made last April
in this column:
While Admiral Peary, as the CUES, of
the Aero Club. said in his after-dinner
speech that he had no hesitation in pre-
dieting that within a short time aero
planes would not only cross the Atlantic
and fly around the world. hut reach the
north pole. Lincoln Beachy commented
| on the Across the Atlantic trip with
| a decided Not yet Many others en-
tered the discussion. but Wright agreed
with Beachv and placed definitely the
reason in the inability to carry sufi-
Client fuel
I'VE cannot help feeling that Beachys
views are sousder than those Of Peary' -
This is not to boast of the prediction,
but to compliment Lieut.. Porte and Glenn
! Curtiss on the wisdom and courage Of
coming out as soon as they find that
\ il would be taking too big chances. ad-
mittinR the situation and going to work
| TO make il possible. This is far better
than to risk life in an attempt where
the margin OF safety is insufficient.
j. $, Strana CHAN and T. c. Graham,
! for sixteen hours and ten minutes at
| Penarth. Wales less forty-five minutes
| for breakfast, lunch and teal, played
eight rounds OF the links.
| Ar. Stranashan. who won. had the ad-
vantage of nearly twenty years over his
opponent in the matter of age They
estimate that they walked nearly thirty
five miles.
| The scores for the eight rounds were
Mr.. Stranashan So sti 81 80 81 81 81 s2-s7s
There are some strange dongs in pro-