New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-28
Johnston, from the Coast,
Put Out of Running on
Southampton Courts.
BUT HE AND GRIFFIN
WIN IN DOUBLES
National Chailengers Defeat
Pell and Prentice in
Straight Sets.
BY FRED HAWTHORNE.

Southampton, n. Y, Aug. 27.-The-
/ odore Roosevelt Pell and Watson NJ.
Washburn will meet tomorrow in the
final round of the singles. while in the
/ doubles Clarence J. Griffin and William
; VI. Johnston, cnallengers for the ma
tional title, will oppose Walter Mer-
/ rill Hall and G. VI. Church for the
twin cups.
Pell, playing the game CT his life.
crushed the meteoric Johnston, last of
the California players, in the singles,
by a score OF 6-3, Ga. ard Wash
/ ourn played to form in putting Walter
Merrill Hall out of the tournament by
"a score Of 81, G-l.
! The singles final will be played at
II o'clock tomorrow morning. and the
doubles al 3 O'Clock in the afternoon.
Their everybody will begin the wild
rush TO get back 20 New York and For
est Hills, to be in readiness for the
national championships on Monday.
Johnston did not play with the same
dash and brilliancy against Pell that
! distinguished his work yesterday
against Church, and only three or four
times in the match did he 90 20 the
ret. But it was Pells splendid iudg-
ment in whipping his deep drives
through his opponents court and his
crafty changing of pace in the middle
I of rallies that upset Johnston's usual
plan Of play and placed him on the
defence almost entirely.
Johnston began the service. but lost
/ the first game on three errors Of his
own and a clean placement shot across
the fore court By Pell. The latter
sent back his drives so swiftly that the
Coast star did not have time 20 get
set for his returns.
The next game went to deuce iwice
before Pell scored Oh a bRckhand drive
that whistled past Johnston's ear as he
mad. start for the net. The little
California man was nervous and paced
up and down back of his base line rest
/ lessly, as he waited for Pelps service.
1 The Pacific Coast player began hit
} ting in his usual free style at this
stage and piled up his points rapidly
/ Pell found himself outdriven and out
/ generated and could only get total
/ OF three points in the next three
/ games. with Johnston scoring many of
his points by placement shots.
/ Pell took things coolly, however, and
changed his tactics slightly, mixing in
soft shots with furious driving from
/ his backhand. and several times john
! ston was tricked out o. position. Pell
won the last four games of the ser.
and his rival was able to get only
/ three points, one of which he earned
with shot for placement as his OPP
ponent closed In at the net IN the
seventh game.
Having the opening set tucked away
at Go. Pell faced a different PROPOSE
ton in the second. for Johnston was
on tiptoe. The opening game went 20
deuce twice before Pell won on his own
service. Both men made many errors
and did not seem able to gauge the
court limits accurately.
In the next four games Johnston
came into his own and overwhelmed
his opponent by storm of placement
shots from mid-court. Pell stood IN
the back of his court and aimed his
hardest drives at the Coast player, but
Johnston was fighting IN the last ditch
then and simply would not yield step
An indication of the quality OF john
ston's game at this stage is shown by
the TACT that he scored eighteen per-
feet aces by placement IN those four
games.
But that was the climax so far as
the Westerner was concerned, and
Pell. bracing wonderfully, took the
next five games end the second set at
ca, giving him the match.
The point score and stroke analysis
of the match follow:
FIRST SET
g Johnston . .:.:.:...:.t :tss tt-sSs
SECOND SET
Johnston .......5 5i3st3 ! go 80
To,als-Pell sets. II games. 70 points; Johnston.
StsoSe analysis rtcspitulation-Poll., 9 nets. -
out. Is placements. no : A. double ialt
Johnston. % nets q outs. % placements no 3 \"
> double faults.
Washburn played so fast and so
cleverly against Hall in the other semi
final match that the latter could only
get four games IN the two sets. and
the match was all over within an
hours time, Washburn winning at
Go, 6-1.
The Harvard man alternated deep
driving with rallies at the net, vOlley-
ing the ball so low that Hall rarely
got a chance TO use his severe smashes.
Washburn's chop strokes. with their
acute under-spin, were most difficult
70 handle once they bounded. yet Hall
made the mistake of hanging in the
rear of his court, instead OF cutting
his opponents shots off by yolleying.
Church and Hall. who have not hith
erto figured frequently as doubles
combination. came through to the final
round by their defeat of Ward Dav-
son and Harold A. Throckmorton. at
6-l. %. The winners completely
outclassed their opponents, their
severe play overhead and their gener-
alship giving them an easy victory
Dawson and his partner tried TO lob
over their opponents heads. but met
with scant success. Hall was the more
accurate at mailing these high balls,
but Church earned fully as many points
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