New-York tribune., 1919-08-21
California Player Surprises
Gallery at Southampton;
Australians Lose Rae
quets and Their Clothing
By Fred Hawthorne

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Inc real feature and sensation of the
second day of play in the annual in
vltatlon lawn tennis tournament of the
Meadow Club this afternoon was the
appearance of Norman +. Brookes and
GERALD l.. Patterson, of Australia, new
ly crowned doubles champions of these
united States. The Australian STARS
appeared, but they did not play, either
IN the singles or the doubles.
And the reason lay in the fact that
brookes and Patterson had got out of
touch with their tennis racquets. cloth
ing and other paraphernalia in transit
from Boston to this town. Neither
player had the slightest idea tonight
Just where the missing stuff was, but
1t IS expected to reach here tomorrow,
IN time to permit the Antipodcans to
get into action in both singles and
doubles. They are in opposite sides
OF the draw in the first named event.
and should meet in the final round.
Tornado Brand of Tennis
The crushing defeat of Walter Mer-
rill Hall, Middle States champion, by
Willis 4. Davis, of California, in the
third round, the sets going at 60,
ID came as great surprise to those
IN the gallery. Hall, up to three weeks
ago, when business duties made seri-
Gus inroads into his tennis activities.
was playing in excellent form, but this
afternoon he never seemed able to get
started against the typical Californian
brand of tornado-like tennis that the
tall and raw-boned Davis was hurting
over the net at him.
To begin with, the Californian had
his railroad" service travelling on all
twelve cylinders, which means that it
was gong as fast as any mans Hall
was not able to do anything with the
ball, as it shot through his court, and
worse, in the first set, he simply could
not get his own service working prop
srly, dropping every game on his de-
livery
1t was case OF serve, volley and
smash by Davis, in the first set, with
little opposition from Hall. In the
second se- the Middle States title hold
er gained more control ever his shot
and fought his way to victory in four
of the zen games largely through the
power of his forehand drives through
deep court. These he used as fore
ing shots, going in behind them to fin
lsh off his points with severe volleying.
There were many keen duels between
East and West in this set, but the
greater speed and "killing' power Of
ha q +,
TO victory.
Conrad B. Doyle, of Washington. was
another winner in the third round
The Southern chop stroke expert took
the measure of Theodore Roosevelt
Pell, of New York, by score of SIS
g. Pell had hard time digging up
the ball from the turf as Doyle I'M
parted his most tricky cuts, and in
stead Of allowing Pell to make his
fight from back court, the Senator cum
ningly dropped his returns short into
fore-court after forcing his man our
Of position.
Garland Eliminates Emerson
Charles s. Garland, Of Pittsburgh
eliminated Gerald B. Emerson, of South
Orange, in the same round, by a score
of 60, 6-2. The New Jersey school
boys reckless, hard-hitting style Of
game was useless against the coolness
and skill with which Garland forced
his openings and sent the ball through
ror placement aces.
Emerson tried to force his way to
he net, but Garland sent him bach,
lth beautiful passing shots down the
de lines. Brookes won from Vincent
chards by default, as did Randolph
, .ycett, the other Australian, over S.
.oWard Voshell
Thirty pairs started play in the men 5
oubles and five teams came through
the round before the seml-fnal, as
o.lows: 7. R. Pell and Davis, Lycett
nd Thomas, Leroy and Lyle Mahan.
Iilden and Garland and Hall and
Leonard Beekman.
Lycett and Thomas, who came to this
country few weeks ago, heralded as
second only to Brookes and Patterson
as doubles combination, were forced to
three sets Dy T. L. James, of Saratoga,
and Walter Westbrook, of Detroit,
runners-up in the Old Dominion cham
pldnship doubles. The Australians
finally pulled out the match at 6-4
81, 81.
The first session was closely contest
ed, with Lycett showing better tennis
than Thomas, and in the second set
the foreigners 4eu at u ana 81 on
games. Before the Americans started
to increase the pace of their shots and
force the net position Thomas was
broken through three times in this set,
and his errors We're numerous In ad-
dition, he seemed to lack the power to
"kill" overhead, playing the ball cau-
tiously on every such occasion.
Westbrook was a dominating figure
in this set, smashing with splendid
power and accuracy and breaking up
the Australians defence by these tao
tics. James also took hand in the
rallies with great efficiency, with the
result that the set went to him and
Westbrook at 7-5. In the final set
the Australians steadied down and ran
through the seven games rapidly, both
going to the net and volleying brill
antly, though softly for their points.