The sun., 1919-08-22
.BROOKES IN TENNIS
SEMI-FINAL ROUND
Australian Advances in South
amptOn Tourney With Davis,
Mahan and Garland.
by EUGENE n. o.coNNELL.

SOUTHAMPTON, Aug. 21.-It Is kind of
tough on the great number of tennis en-
thusiasts down here this year. but the
fact remains that they are doomed not
TO see many of the very special attrac-
lions In the annual invitation tennis
tournament at the Meadow Club. Up
TO to-day Robert Lindley Murray the
American champion Gerald L. Patter-
son. the British champion Mclaughlin,
Williams. Johnston, Tilden, Kumagae
Griffin, Voshell. Richards, Wallace John
son and Harry Johnson had sidestepped
the singles, while Walter Merrill Hall
and T. r. Pell had been among those
who had not played well enough to keep
in. And now Patterson and Norman E.
Brookes, after starting, have defaulted
In the doubles, but the tale of that comes
later.
In the singles to-day the semi-fnal
round was reached. In the upper half
Charles f. Garland of Pittsburg and
Lyle e. Mahan of New York will be the
opponents in to-morrow's matches, and
in the lower half Willis e. Davis of San
Francisco will oppose Norman e.
Brookes of Australia.
There is not anything very startling
about either of these matches. Garland,
who recently reached the semi-fnal
round of the English championship
tournament at Wimbledon, should have
no difficulty In beating Mahan. In the
other match Brookes, unless he has gone
back an awful long way since he played
here In 1914, should be the winner.
As far as the Garland Mahan match is
concerned there is nothing more to be
So Id. for Garland is a youngster who has
been steadily coming along and Manan
is a veteran who never has reached top
flight In tennis and now is on the wane.
Davis's Tennis Varies.
With Brookes and Davis, however. 1t
| Is a different matter Davis is rather
an uncertain quantity. The Californian
has played remarka BILE tennis at various
times in his career That is, he has
played remarkably good and remarkab bly,
bad tennis. In winning the clay court
| championship three years ago he showed
wonderful ability, but he failed TO hold
| the pace.
Stree that time there has been little
chance to get line on him. His work
in England was little better than aver
age and he has won nothing since he re-
| turned to this country. However. the
! fact cannot be gainsaid that he is
| cape BILE
| At the same time reasonable followers
of tennis can hardly doubt but that lcok-
| ing back over long period of play
| Brookes stands out as one of IL not alb.
| solutely the greatest exponent OF tennis
| that ever held racquet His play In
| the doubles at Boston. and for that mat
ter at Newport as well, made many hold
the belief that Patterson might have
| beaten Brookes at Wimbledon. but that
| the old timer was back In form thai
could beat Patterson or any other OF the
| or Gh MIA ~
course was holding back a point, for few
even II they feel 1t. want to think tha'
Brookes, who had been playing before
many OF our stars were born, could beat
| them at the present time. This match
| promises to be a good one, in fact tho
best one to date in the tourney
| In the doubles Brookes and Patterson
! started against Major Z. B. Harran Of
the British army and F. +. De Rham IL
| the second round and defaulted afteI
| leading at 6-3. 7-6, 1910 The Aus
| tralians had been playing easily but wei
and It was quite evident that Patterson
was playing considerably faster than any
| of the other men on the court. However
when the default came quickly and I'm
! expectedly, II was announced that tn,
Australians had withdrawn owing to In,
fact that Patterson was suffering from
a strain in his right arm and preferred Il
rest up for the more strenuous ordeal o
playing in the national championship
singles next week.