Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-08-24
FOR !.
THE DAVIS CUP /
were MASTERLY
Mclaughlin Hailed as Greatest
Player in World After Beat
ing Both Australians

] Here Is the brief story of play for
the Davis cup. which American tennis
players lost to the Australasian team,
after a great fight. The account OF the
play, experimenting the brief cable
news received here at the time, shows
that America made a gallant fight, but
that the doubles team, on which the
match hung, wasn't up to the test:
FOREST HILLS, ". Y, Aug. ia
The opening matches in the contest
between the United States and Austria
lasta for the possession of the Davis
cup, emblematic of the worlds team
tennis championship. played here this
afternoon resulting in one victory and
one defeat for each nation.
Anthony F. Wilding of the ehalleng-
ing team defeated r. Norris Williams
III of the American defenders In
straight sets, Is. 60, 6-3. Not the
least disturbed by the defeat OF his
teammate, Maurice T. McLoughlin
eyened the days score by defeating
Norman +. Brookes, captain OF the
Australasian quartet and considered
the worlds master at tennis, in three
stirring sets by scores Of Ills, 6-3,
6-3.
As result. the winner OF the trophy
and championship cannot be decided
before Saturday.
! The Brookes-McLoughlin match
marked a history-making epoch in the
court sport and thrilled the $4,000 spec.
tators to point seldom reached in
racquet battles. For one hour and
twenty minutes these two masters of
/ the game battled through the first set
under broiling sun before Brookes
was forced to acknowledge that at last
he had met his superior in skill and
endurance. The score, 17-15, set q
new worlds record for cup tennis. sup.
\ planting the 16-14 match PLAYED be.
tween Wilding and Lowe of the Austria.
lasian and English teams, respectively.
at Boston last week.
! The play during this opening en-.
counter of the match was so perfectly
spectacular that the thousands who
hlled the towering stands and club.
houses which surrounded the courts
were tense with excitement and en-.
thusiasm from the opening service un.
til McLoughlins final smash pro-
claimed him the winner.
4 The stroke execution, skill In place.
evenly apportioned that at times the
racquet masters appeared to play like
machines rather than human beings
with the worlds championship at
stake. $. -
/ The advantage OF service was the
edge that gave each the lead In turn,
and for thirty games each won on ser.
/ vice 1t was not until the score stood
15-15 that Mclaughlin broke through
his opponents service. easily took the
next game and the set
/ Having once established his mastery
| over Brookes, the American champion
ran out the next two sets and match
with promptness that showed that
/ Brookes' best was no longer superior
t., McLoughlin's game.
Mclaughlin Improves.
! The victor showed far smoother
and more finished game than his play
OF 1913, having greatly Improved his
backhand and curbed his impetuOus
strokes and rushes. As a result he
outplayed and OUTRAGED Brookes. while
but point or two separated the play.
ers in outs, nets and double faults.
After the terrific first set, Brookes
became leg weary. and while he lost
none OF his racquet skill he could not
follow the pace set by Mclaughlin.
Except for a desperate and final rally
in the third set, he always was facing
a superior player, being outspeeded
and outgeneraled in a majority Of the
games.
Williams showing against Wilding
was as disappointing from an Ameri-
can viewpoint as McLoughlin's victory
over Brookes was elating. The Phila.
delphian opened with binding assert.
ment of cross-courts and line-scorching
shots that had his opponent completely
hewildered during the first three
games.
Williams, however, failed to hold the
plans he had set for his plane and
Wilding, by steadiness in the back
court. soon had Williams back to the
arratic game for which he is noted.
Melted returns, outs and double service
faults far outnumbered his few bril-
liant streaks, and as Stanley Doust
one Of the Australasian reserve play.
ers, remarked: ''Williams played to
beat himself"
IBy Latest MALL
FOREST HILLS, l.. LIN a dOu-
bles match that ran from sensational
to mediocre tennis, Norman z. Brooks
and Anthony F. Wilding defeated
Maurice f. Mclaughlin and Thomas c.
Bundy in straight sets, 6-S, SO, 81,
putting the Australasians in the lead
fer the Davis cup, two matches to
one.
| The Australasian victory was we'll
earned and without flaw. The team
work of the Antipodeans was that OF
master racquet wielders who thorough
ly understood each others plays and
tactics both at net and on the deep
court. Although the United States
champions carried the chailengers into
deuce sets twice, they never could lift
their game to the plane where Brooks
and Wilding were unable to check
their rallies at crucial moments. The
older and more experienced pair al
WAYS had something in reserve and
tboir oetr.fiko team work digcOUCpft-