The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-09-05
Second Section

round In the national lawn TENNIS CHaih-
pionship tournament at the West Side
Tennis Club in Forest Hills. l.. l., yes
terday, and all four favorites survived.
Maurice L. McLoughlin OF San Fran
cisco, the worlds champion Richard
Norris williams I'd of Philadelphia,
national champion. and Theodore H.
Pell OF New York, who last year was
not rated in the first ten, won their
nth round matches in straight sets,
while william NJ. Johnston OF san Fran
cisco had to go Ave sets to down Clar-
ence ]. Griffin. his doubles partner.
Harold A. Throckmorton of Sewaren.
n. j., won the national in,erscholas-
tic championship from Charles s.
Garland Of Pittsburs. three sets to one
at 6-3. Is, IS, 6-3. In the morning
when there were not many persons
around.
Close to 1000 persons made up the
crowd that watched the championship
matches in the afternoon. The heat was
cppressive-it felt like the midsummer
but the gallery forgot the glare of
the sun in the brilliance of the tennis.
Youngsters show Well.
Williams ana 1lCLOuSnlln were gem
orally expected to have w%slkovers be-
cause they were to meet william Rand
ID and Francis T. Hunter respec-
lively. two youngsters whose chief claim
10 fame has been their advance in the
present tournament. Both of the young
players surprised the crowd by their
play, Rand carrying the national cham
pion to two deuce sets before he lost
at SIS. rs, 81, while Hunter, al
Though ha did pOt Nip "a ypapy ua WAS
as did Rand. showed much ability be-
fore he was downed at Ga, g., 60.
There was a great deal of honor for
Rand in his defeat by the champion.
The young Harvard freshman made a
better showing against Williams than
any one but Walter Merrill Hall in
this tournament. 1t would be foolish
to say that he gives promise OF develop
ing into a good player. He is that now
and needs only a little seasoning. Hun-
ter, although good. showed nothing like
the native talent OF Rand.
Pel played the same steady high class
game that he has been showing all week
and beat Irving c. Wright Of Boston at
SIS, 81, 6-1. while Johnston showed
streaks of good and bad tennis in beat
ING Grimm at e.. 81, 6-S. 81.
81. Grifin's tsun'A TOO, for that mat
ter. was streaky. oitY his good was not
quite as good as : ..lston's. Many re-
garded IT as unfortunate that the two
Californians had to meet, especially In
view or the fact that Griffin had to
eliminate Ward Dawson another San
Francisco boy, in the third round.
State Well Represented.
However. the State with the super
abundance OF sunshine and star tennis
players is well represented with John
ston in the top half to meet Williams, at
3:l5 Tomorrow. and Mclaughlin in the
W. half. to try conclusions with Pell
at AS.
Johnston played remarkable tennis In
the first, second and fifth sets. the kind
OF tennis which will be hard for any one
TO beat IL he can continue II. He hit
the ball with more power than he has
ever done here before and was steadier
on his returns. The twenty-year-old
San Francisco boy first gave promise OF
being a serious contender for the title
when he downed Karl H.. Behr on FRI
day and his work yesterday made him
look still more dangerous. 1t is an alb
solute certainty that IL he can play the
Kind of tennis against Williams that he
displayed against Behr on Friday and
against Griffin in the first. second and
last sets yesterday the champion will
have to travel faster than in his pre-
vious matches this season to get into
the final round.
Play Much In Fore Court.
Johnston won the opening game of his
match at love on his own service. He
was serving better than ordinarily and
on his first three service games lost only
one point. Griffin also won his first two
service games, but did so with difi-
Guilty and only because of his brilliant
work in fore court. Johnston finally
broke thrnnQh mn thA gixth 40, ar1 al !
not lose another game in the set. Both
of the Californians were playing more
b iore court than has been seen all week
ana many Of the rallies brought out
some thrilling volleying.
In the Second set the men divided the
hrst two games. each winning on service,
ana then Johnston hit the best pace of
ne match. II seemed that he could not
miss and when he was not absolutely
lAssing Griffin on drives that whipped
across the net less than an inch above
he was banging the ball to spots
"here Griffin could barely reach II and
vas forced 40 make mistakes in return
ing by dribbllng the sphere into the net
or popping IT far out Of court. john
sion ran through five straight games
TO get the set and only one OF the
games went to deuce.
Grimm Receivers Form.
S''HiH sHoWtu TtTld1kdDle recovery OF
FORM IN the early games Of the third
SET He found control OF the ball and
got more speed into his returns than
ne had been getting In the first two
sets' Things did not look very prom
'sng for him, however, when Johnston
pnt on a little extra steam and took
me lead at "a. With Johnston serv-
ing IN the eighth game 1t looked like a
certainty that he would make the score
ID and have easy sailing to a straight
rev hnish, for Griffin had not broken
through Johnston's service throughout
lhe match up to that time. He did the
Unexpected. however, and broke through.
ne won on his own service too and had
the lead at b. Griffin had the ad-
vantage again at 8--5 and 80 love, but !
could not win the twelfth game. The
SCI went to him after he won two
oeuce games, the thirteenth and four
tenth.
Johnston got back to his stride In the
nfst two games of the fourth set. but
orlnin topped him on speed and won
.he next three. Griffin kept along In
'front.' by a one game margin and had a
Shance TO win on the tenth game with
,ne score favoring him at St, 80 love.
out as In the preceding set he failed.
hgaln after deuce had been reached In
we set Griffin came through and evened
The match.
Fifth Set Brilliant.
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