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dy or by passing the national cham
pion cleanly down the side courts
Holders Settle Into Stride.
As the set progressed the national
title holders gradually settled into
their stride, and after Pell had made
several dying efforts 10 break through
their opponents service and take the
set the California combination took the
twentieth, twenty-frst and twenty-sec-
ond games, and with it the set, by the
many outs and nets Of the opposing
pair. Thus far the battle had been al
most an even one, with neither slde
having any distinct advantage IN point
Of skill, although the national cham
pions steadied when the occasion de-
nandcd. and this is what earned them
the honors when all was summed up.
The clashes between Pell and Behr be-
came more frequent. The former was
always attempting TO cool the ardor OF
his partner, but Behr's ardor, when on
the court, knows no restraining hand,
and again and again he ducked after
Pell's shots, sometimes scoring beauti-
fully. but as frequently mulllng the
stroke. The crowd was always amused
by Behr's behavior.
"Mac coming up" he would yell to
Fell, as the red-headed comet from INC
Coast left his base line with bound
that landed him in midcourt, ready to
annihilate the OPPOSITION with one OF
his terrifying smashes.
In the second set the men continued
at the same great speed they had
started the battle with. Behr and Nc
Loughlin kept up their duels at the
net, with the ball travelling so swiftly
between their racquets that the eye
could scarcely follow its flight
Mclaughlin was picture when IN
action. With every stroke he made he
threw his whole body into the motion
His teeth were clenched. his lips curled
back in a savage snarl and his merry
hair fairly bristling with the Zest for
battle. Several times he scored seem
ingly impossible shots. twice turning
completely around in his tracks 70
take Behr's smashes to the base line,
and making the stroke with his back
turned 20 the court
New Sting to CannOnball.
One thing that every one noticed
particularly, however. was that Nc
Loughlin's cannon ball service seemed
to have lost its sting. Upon not more
than three occasions did he succeed
in getting in the service that won him
fame last year. He scored a total of
only eight service aces throughout the
Gve-eet match. In fact, Pell and Behr
experienced more trouble with Bundy's
battling, twisting ball than with the
national champions.
Behr and Pell soon found themselves
behind in the second set by score of
4 games 10 2, and then started one Of
- I.t ia. hat,
the fsvorites with the crowd. battling
fercely and outpiaying their oppo-
nenis bycatching them out Of position
with beautiful 'crOss-court strokes That
cludcd even the great Mclaughlin. By
taking everything the McLoughlln-
Bundy team sent over and returning
them i'm "A hail Of smashcs, the Middle
States champions brought the games
up 10 D all.
That was their supreme effort. how
ever. and the opposing pair took the
last two games and the set. To those
who were gathered about the court. II
seemed that Pell and Behr had shot
their bolt and would prove easy victims
in the third set. Bchr was moody and
inconsoable and Pell kept patting his
partner Oh the back. saying: THAT
an right. khIl. we'll get them in the
next Set so ~ proved, Tor the under
dogs came back so strongly that thew
swept the national champions OFT their
feet for the next two sets and thc
greater part Of the third. only TO lose
ont nthe end Bundy again began hi
ceasclcss lobbing, playing the ball TO
Rchr 70. the more erratic member OF
the opposition.
But the latter. by supreme effort.
gained control over his smashing and
fnirly bombardcd the court with ba!is
that either landed so far back on the
court that Mclaughlin and his partner
,,,o,o caught out OF position or else cut
tho balls 80 sbsrpl, across the court