Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-07-02
Pacific Coast Star Plays Bril-
liant Game, Winning in
Straight Sets.
LOCAL MAN OFF FORM;
HIS SHOWING DISAPPOINTS
Molla Bjurstedt Wins Women's
Singles and With George Church
the Mixed Doubles.

(A~ i~S- A-'~' ) AAy -
E. Davis of San Francisco won
the clay court tennis champion
ship OF the United States IN mems
singles and Miss Molla Bjurstedt
retained her crown in the wom-
ems singles today at the Lake
wood Tennis Club before the
largest crowd that has ever seen
tennis match in the Forest city.
Both champions won their final
round matches in straight sets.
Davis triumphed over Conrad b.
Doyle of Washington, playing the
best tennis he has displayed in
the east, at 90, IS, 6-3, after
Miss Bjurstedt had beaten Miss
Martha Guthrie of Pittsburgh, at
SO, 6r3. Miss Bjurstedt and
George NJ. Church won the mixed
doubles, beating Mrs. Harry w.
Bickle of Toronto and Doyle, at
6-1, O.
In spite of the fact that both the big
matches were won in straight sets
there was not the slightest flavor Of
one sdedness in either of them. Doyle's
showing was little disappointing in
| that he did not show the form which
nabled him to defeat Church earlier in
| the week. The Washington man played
| high -class tennis from the very start.
and most of the time was positively
brilliant, but he caught Davis showing
| a streak of play better than the Cali
fornan has shown in any other match
since he started to play in the east. The
San Francisco boy seemed living com
posite of his famous fellow Cali
| fornians. Maurice Z. Mclaughlin and
William NJ. Johnston He had much of
| the vim and vigor in his overhead and
service that marked McLoughlfn's
game and a generous share of the ease
and grace on ground strokes that
lin last year.
Doyle Tries Everything.
1t was his ability to pick Doyle's
! sharp chop drives oUt of dirt on q
snappy half volley stroke that enabled
him to draw Doyle out of position and
pave the way for an ace by placement,
Time and again Doyle tried everything
he knew in a vain effort to ind the
Californians vulnerable spots. That
meant that there was plenty of variety
in the play, for versatility is one Of the
strongest assets of the Washington
racquet wielder. He started out by
coming to the net and attempting to
long to find out, however. that Davis
could get to the net quicker than he,
and was considerably stronger in COW
ering the court when he got there.
Later on in the match the Washing
ton man tried the deep driving game.
which had accounted for his defeat OF
William S. McEllroy in the semi-hnal
round yesterday. Davis showed that
there was very little if anything lacking
in his tennis education. for he played the
base line game as if he had been playing
that style of tennis and nothing else all
his life His sharp drives from deep
court frequently came back at Doyle SO
fast that the Washington player was I'M
able to get anywhere near them
For a time in the opening set II looked
as If the battle would be long drawn
out affair, with neither man able to ac-
complish anything with the service of the
other Doyle's service is just as fast as
that of Davis. but it lacks the hook that
gives the Californian's a vicious bounce.
The Washington man started service and
won the first game easily. The only
point Doyle lost in that game was on a
double fault. while he made his first three
points on Davis errors in returning serv-
ice and the fourth on a clean service ace