New-York tribune., 1916-07-25
o.ck Griffin Takes Sen
sational Match in
Straight Sets.
oNFALE LOSES TO
BILLY JOHNSTON
Ne, Stars Fall in the First
nay's Play of the Long
wood Tourney.
r, JAMES s. O'NEALE.

,..o, July o. We knew just the
cav the statue Of Roger Will
- -. smear TO vabble in the wind on
10 Cspito, as we passed through
,eF .s.,,e tbst something would hap
- Richard Norris Williams, I'd,
-. in the big annual Longwood
-. .,pnis tournament on the turf
-. o. the Lonewood Cricket Club.
go. in the afternoon. Our prog
..,.,ation wss correct
81 hssdv. resdy little Peck Grif-
Ssr Francisco. did IL. What rs
~ v Aid 4 complete job in the neat
nVIe, ,."..,~bsble Clarence James Griffin
I'' Es defeated Williams. former ma
- chamrion and UP 70 fourteen
'yu~, ~,.s 20 & this afternoon the favorite
,.- .Hssi .sis years honors, in two straight
y sets. In the first set Griffin
rallied is. ,, .
- xhst a fall was there as Griffin
s.s..5 80 until he could see the whites Of
ws:ii;s-ss ewes and fired when he was
-ssSr 70 put over the decisive points.
-sSre was no JOY in Longwood after
Williams had struck out, for the loyal
-,nbsrs OF the Longwood Cricket Club
-.,, With the Philadelphia heart,
,,~l and sole possessions, and. in fact.
80 ,ntered him in the tournament
i,o- heir club, where he played while
4. Harvard.
Williams was the favorite in the
LIVER half, with William NJ. Johnston.
.,,ionsl champion in singles. and with
crian. in doubles. the chosen OF the
.FPer. NJ.
Incidentally. Johnston won two
-s.ches. Griffin. seventh man in the
asking list. had not been too seriously
.,nsisered. for Williams was supposed
. have a banner tennis year in his
rssp. Perhaps he has. but the grasp
rvs. now reach into the future.
Eghty-three Of the best players in
80 East and West started competition
i,r the Longwood bowl. All the favor
-ss except Williams won one or two
-s,ehes. every third round match
,srr run Oft in riot of play on the
.srf courts.
EP Larned, Watson NJ. Washburn
F n Whitney and Theodore Roosevelt
p,u. OF New York; Nathaniel W. Niles
nd Irving c. Wright. Of Longwood
n,hsrd Hsrte and George c. Gamer, OF
gsrard: lchiya Kumsgae and Haehi'
t',o Mikami, of Japan; II. A. McKin-
,v and r. y. Dana. Of Providence;
.g'snd Roberts. of San Francisco;
Villain s. McEllroy and Charles s
Grind. Of Pittsburgh. and Joseph j.
Arrsuong and Craig Biddle, Of Phila-
islphis. were some OF the stars who
son.
AmonF The losers were Francis 7.
Hunter holder Of The Tribune Cup
Who lost In three sets TO Irving
Wright: Wallace F. Johnson, the Phila-
islphisn. who is the country's leading
,top stroke artist, who dropped a ter
nc tussle 20 Pell; II. Van Dyke Johns
~ Leland Stanford; William Rand, 3D.
,f Harvard. who unexpectedly fell be
fore II. r. Scott. of Longwood, and
Fenimore Cady, former New England
champion.
Disappointment was occasioned by
The defaults Of George VI. Church and
Willis f. Davis, who are saving them
selves for the Eastern doubles cham
rionship. which starts here to-mor-
,ov; Of former national champion Will
an J. Clothier. and Of Robert Leroy
'f New York. once intercollegiate title
colder
When rosy checked, hard sinewed
yogrg Williams had run up a lead OF
81 on his own service in the first set
Igs.nst Peck Griffin, it appeared to the