The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-20

NEWPORT, Aug. 19.-Maurice T.. Nc
Loughlin and Clarence j. Grimm Of San
Francisco, Richard Norris williams %
OF Philadelphia and Nathaniel w. Niles
or Boston. the quartet figured from the
beginning as the nllers OF the semi-fnal
brackets. reached that round in the in
vitation tournament at the Casino courts
to-day and the tennis was lust about as
good as has been seen this season.
Griffin was the only one OF the four who
won his match in straight sets. Nc
Loughlin and Williams each lost the
first set of their matches and Niles lost
the first two before he %triumphed.
Williams disposed OF william NJ. John
ston, the sparkling young San Francisco
boy, on the championship court at 3-6,
1O-s, 6-1, 6-3, and rose to heights
in the game that he has failed to reach
heretofore this season. While Williams
was shining over on the main court Nc
Loughltn was not playing anything like
the world famed Comet OF yore and had
to hustle to beat Wallace +. johnson OF
Philadelphia. Griffin got through his
contest with Irving c. Wright of Boston
quickly, winning at rs. Ga, s-4, and
ch TIC iNAh " " MIN kNiitS Dtdt
Harry C.. Johnson, another Bostonian.
at IS, IS, 81, "a. 6-S. In fact
1t was always doubtful as to whether
Niles or Johnson would be tho mar to
meet Mclaughlin in the seminal round
on the championship court tomorrow
morning. In tho upper half Williams
will play Griffin.
Williams vas playing at top speed
and gave the gallery, one OF the largest
| of tina UAAE "a 0rnndlp nnVvrhnr If thrtIIa
Some of the Rhiladelphian's returns
seemed beyond human possibility and
must have been discouraging To the
Californian, for they usually came at
times when they meant most. Williams
lad to play we'll to win. Johnston was
in rare form and the way he ran
through the opening set made II look as
IL there would be a further tangle for
the ranking committee to unravel. The
set was divided into clusters OF three
games. Johnston tool the first trio.
then dropped three to Williams and An
ished with another trinity.
He let his string out TO Ave straight
games by taking the first two of the
second set and he went with such speed
that he lost only one point In tina se two.
Right at. this tai OF the game his best
stroke Began to fail him a little. He
had hard luck on his drives, which time
and again just hit the band of the net
and missed going over by the narrowest
margin possible. Williams proited by
this and got "A chance TO come in to the
net more often, so that he took the lead
at "a. From then on the men won on
their own service up 90 5 all and II was
any ones set. Williams carried of the
seventeenth game for vantage on his
own service and then broke through
Johnston's and won the set.
In the third set Williams needed only
seven games to win the set. After n
rest he came back stronger than ever
and took the lead at 81 in the fourth
set and was not headed. His pace in
this set was remarkable. but the tennis
was not as good as In the first two
sets, for Johnston was not going as
well.
Mclaughlin was having the Same
amount Of trouble with Wallace Johnson's
chop strokes in his match that he had
once before up here when he met the
Philadelphian in the national champion
ship. 1t took him three sets to solve
them properly to-day. The Californian
seemed to lack the b~uoyancy so promi-
nent in his game in other years. Only
once during the entire match did the
big crowd OF spectators get a glimpse
Of the real Mclaughlin. That was In
the fourth game of the fourth set. II
was McLoughlin's service and when he