New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-08
JOHNSTON WINS
HIGHEST H0NORS
IN LAWN TENNIS
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ried off the field on the shoulders Of
Lylc Z. Mahan and H. c. Cutler. Nc
Loughlin WIS left alone for q moment,
but then Ward Dawson and Tom
Rundv. the other Californians, bent
down and lifted Mac bodily in their
arms and followed Johnston toward the
clubhouse.
It was then that the wonderful hold
Mclaughlin has or the public was
demonstrated. Women stood up with
tears running down their cheeks as
the fallen idol was carried from the
arena. Even some of the men who had
seen the great Californian defeated N
the brilliant struggle. culped and swa!-
lowed hard as Mclaughlin disappeared
in a doorway. ,
FOR time in the forenoon il looked
as though thunder showers would force
a postponement Of the final round
match. Half dozen times dark clouds
rolled over the fiat Long Island coun-
Try, only to be driven away by a lazy
breeze. But by the time the gates
were thrown open, at o'clock, the sun
was shining brilliantly and the crowd
BEGAN TO file through.
On the Way TO the Courts.
A steady stream of men and women
poured into the Pennsylvania Station
at Thirty-third Street and Seventh
Avenue, TANNED its way into the trains
and was dumped out at the Forest Hills
station. Johnston and Mclaughlin
boarded the train leaving the city at
2:06 o'clock, sitting together in cross
seat. They chatted in carefree man
ner, not Of lawn tennis and the match
they were about TO play, but OF the
flying countryside beside the tracks.
II was not long before their presence
on the train became known and they
became the objects of great curiosity.
"You would never believe those two
fellows were about 10 play for a cham.
pionship. They seem too friendly,
said a man standing in the aisle. But
if he saw the match later, his mlno
must have been disabused of that idea
for no two men ever fought harder
on the courts than Johnston and Nc
Loughin. =,
Eddie Conlin sat in the umpire
chair. Harold Hackett presided as judge
of footfaults, Nathaniel ". Niles was
calling nets and Irving Wright, f. b
Alexander. Allan Tobey, William b
Cragin. +. F. Toney. Paul Gibbons. +
l.. Fischer, Benjamin NJ. Phillips, Ar,
thur Freedman and s. Howard Nosheil
attended TO the lines.
Johnston brought about the downfall
Of Mclaughlin by a combination OF
nIaving virtues that II would seem must
have prevailed against any player III
the land Yesterday. Not alone on sheer
speed of stroke, of eye and OF loot, dio
he hold the advantage over his great
opponent, but in rare judgment in the
crises in which the match abounded
and a marvellous ability to control his
nerves when most dependent upon them
II took the new champion full SCI
20 get working in good order. "hii'
Mclaughlin was sweeping Johnston DC
fore him in the opening set, IT ap'
neared as though TIE youngster conic
not hone 10 stem the onrush OF the tldf
that set so strongly against him. nc
4 Comet" was a wizard OF speed ah1
amazingly brilliant at the net, and mos
of Johnston's shots were STRIKING 'n'
tape or landing wide Of the lines.
announcement Not in His knowing
But the newest holder OF the uu'
did not become discouraged or lnduigs
in flights Of wildness as the games con
tinued TO 20 against him. Instead NJ
gradually attuned his strokes until he
had found the range of the court sno
the height of the net. and once ne mac
satisfied himself that all was right, NJ
started an attack that hardly ever re-
Taxed until Mclaughlin had LETT th'
court a defeated man.
In the third and fourth sets Johh
ston showed court generalship OF th'
most brilliant character. He refused
4 20 give Mclaughlin the opportunity o.
/ taxing the ball overhead and KEEP
tbrusting his own forehand drives an'
/ severe volleying shots TO his oppo
nent's weak bsckhand. MANY times NC
Loughlin ran around these shots u