Evening star., 1914-05-15
Players in Great Form.


Players in Great Form.
| Both Johnson and Bull were in great
form, fairly outdoing themselves. The
neat appeared to affect the former to
some slight extent. and at times he
"aVered, but as a whole his game was
exceptionally good, and he brought the
| large gallery to its feet continually on
some spectacular shot. His chop stroke
] vas WORKING to perfection, and he scored
most of his points on it, one Of his favor
ite stunts being to drop one Just over
| the net. thereby pulling Bull out of posi-
.lon, and then to smash the next shot
down the opposite court for clean
| point
Bull who is left-hended was also
gong well, and at times he outplaye yed
| his opponent but Johnson showed that
| ne had something in reserve and always
- lilanasea TO get the points when he
needed them One Of the features of the
match was the great court generalship
displayed by both players, their place
| ments being accurate, and on several
| occasions each one caught the other on
the wrong foot or running away from the
| ball, and it was here that johnson had a
slight advantage, as he was just a little
better court-coverer and consequently
| was able to return more of the harder
shots
| iic SeFViCo OIL DOGn players was ABOUT
equal, neither apparently having much
| on the ball. but in this case the old ad-
age, appearances are deceitful," must
be given full credit, as both had some
thing on it because of the fact that
neither player handled his opponents
service with any degree of accuracy
and time and again the ball was not re-
turned. either because of aces or be-
cause 1t was not possible to get 1t back
over the net
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| up" as neither struck hts stride until
toward the end. but the next two could
hardly have been improved upon. john
son won the first game and then dropped
| three. but some wonderful shots, coupled
with a slight slump on Bulls part, en-
abled him to take the next two and tie
| things up at three-al. And SO 1t was
throughout the remainder Of the set,
Bull getting the odd game at 6-5, but
| dropping the next three and losing the
second set
Third Set Is Lively.
| The third. and what proved to be the
deciding one, was "corker.' both play
| ing though their lives depended on
| the result, Bull realizing that 1t was now
or never. and Johnson being just as anx-
| ious to win it and end matters, and the
| play was so fast that 1t was difficult to
follow the ball, long rapid rallies and
spectacular shots predominating espe-
cially in the first three games, all Of
which were deuced. Bull won the first
game of this set, nine points to seven,
and he had any number Of chances to
| take the second which called for twenty
points. After deuce was reached, he had
the vantage point no less than four
| times. The last chance he had was on
a double fault by Johnson, and he made
a great try for the next point. making
a return which no one, including Bull.
| thought johnson could possibly return.
with the result that when Johnson made
| it Bull had his back to the net. and. of
course didn't even make a try for it.
Johnson then took the game and followed
this up with two more wins. leading at
the end of the fourth game, 81. The
defender took two of the next three,
| making the count 4-3 against him, but
| this was the nearest he came to winning
as the Philadelphia would not be denied
and finally won out.
The card for the match was:
FIRST SET
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SECOND SET.
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THIRD SET.
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Gallery Enjoys Doubles.
But the ever-changing doubles seemed
to take better with the gallery. Bull and
Theodore R. Pell, also of New York.
winning in the final round of this class
from Harold E. Doyle and W. H Y.
Hackett. another Metropolitan player.
l64, TO. 6-1 and rs This victory
also gives them the title as the Doyle
| brothers-Harold and Connie-were forced
TO default because Of the absence Of
the latter.
This was one Of the best matches in1ae-
inable. as was expressed by one of the
ter than two good singles ones and IL
was certainly appreciated. The action
| is so much faster than in a sfnplas ms tcb