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came within point of the set half a
dozen times. The Australian, however,
pulled 1t out and saved the set momen-
t. rily. Tilden then took the next game
on his own service and gained the set at
ca. The points favored Tilden, Al
TO %.
Patterson's Chances Bright.
The fourth set started exactly like the
third. Patterson won the first game on
service and dropped the next two. Fol-
lowing this, however, the Australian out
played Tilden by a wide margin. and won
three successive games without the loss
Of a point. Patterson had the lead in
the set at -. and looked to be on
the road to victory.
Tilden, however. played desperately
and took two games, which brought him
up to even terms at all. From that
time on 1t became a battle of service.
and it was not until the fifteenth game
that Tilden was able to break through
and win the set by taking the following
game on his own service as we'll. Pat
terson had a couple of chances to win
the set in the tenth game. which went
to deuce six times, but he threw them
away on erratic strokes.
Although the weather was ideal for
tennis and the matches had promised
keen competition the crowd in the stand
numbered only about 5000. It was a
distinctly tennis crowd. however. and
was thoroughly appreciative of the ex-
.ceptional display OF skill in both singles
matches
Americans Careless IN Doubles.
Little can be said in favor of the
doubles match. What bright tennis there
was in 1t came only in occasional spurts,
when the players came out of their
lethargic state and showed some speed
That it went the full route of five sets
was due only to the fact that the Ameri-
cans played much poorer tennis than 1t
was thought they could be capable Of
They were careless from the start and
appeared to be out on the courts only
as a matter of course because the match
had been scheduled.
Wallace Johnson was In particularly
bad form, and his errors gave the Aus
tralians many OF their points. II was
not until the fifth set that Williams
played anything like his real game. He
had been using no power behind his
strokes, and the Australians handled all
of his offerings without any difficulty.
The Americans discovered early IN the
first set that tho Lycett-Thomas combi-
nation would not prove hard to beat, and
therefore did not hustle up their game.
Australians Lead ut Start.
At no stage of the first two sets did
the Australians get into the lead. There
were quite a few long rallies but they
were not of the sparkling type seen in
many matches OF the national champion
ship tournament, and they were usually
terminated by errors.
In the third and fourth sets both Will
Jams and johnson played wretched ten
mis-. AS a result OF this the team work
of the Australians, which was the best
feature OF their play, enabled them to
carry Off game after game and stow
away the sets
The Americans finally awoke to the
fact that II they were to win the match
they would have to play faster and moro
careful tennis, to break down the ma
chinelike steadiness of the Australians.
This they did and ran through six games
with remarkable ease,