The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-05

Tilden tossed his racquet out on the
turf. but his control was not very good
and Johnston won the right to start ser
his opportunity and won the opening
game after trailing at 800. Johnston
made his very opening q 1t service
ace and made the rest OF his points in
the game through the inais.ity of Tilden
to return effectively.
The Philadelphian's beginning was
not as impressive as that of the Cali
fornian, for he opened with double
fault This delayed momentarily the
opportunity for the onlookers TO get a
line on how Johnston would handle mis-
adversary's service. Johnston netted
the next but followed this by whipping
two deep drives over to Tt denis hack
hand. both of which Tilden failed to re-
turn The Californian then slammed
one right past Tilden when the latter at
tempted to come UP to the net on service.
The third game also went to Johnston
when Tilden's returns on service were
puny and the little Californian had the
lead at 80. Johnston indicated strongly
even in these early games that he was
right at the top of his form and he
would be a mighty hard man to beat
He also had given evidence OF his knowl-
edge of the weakness of Tilden's back
hand and the fact that he would make
the maximum use of this knowledge.
Johnston's Errors Help TfIden.
Johnston came within a point of taking
the fourth game too, but made a couple
Of errors which helped Tilden bring 1t
to deuce The points in this game were
all even three times, but Tilden finally
wormed his way into the winning
column.
Johnston appeared to be getting even
more speed on his service in the fifth
game, which he won at love. Two clean
aces, a perfect cross court shot and
an out by Tilden made up the four points
for the Californian. The next three
games also went on service and Tilden
had cut Johnston's lead down from Al
to 5--3. Few, however, looked for any
thing other than Johnston to win on
the next game with his own service.
for Tilden had had little success against
il so far in the match.
The Philadelphia. however, did the
unexpected when he broke through. but
I
called three times and all the points
had been bitterly contested This game
was replete with long rallies and brought
out more thrills than all the preceding
games put together The errors made
by the players were due to their anxiety
to place the ball close to the lines, or
to skim the ball just over the net cord.
1t looked almost certain that ridden
would pull out the next game and force
the set to deuce Many thought that
the lank Philade'ph!an might start a
squirt which would bring him a victory
at least in the set. .Tilden made this
| turn of affairs look even more probable
by taking the lead In the tenth game al
1870. He Melted the next ball when
he tried to play one of Johnston's deep
ones low and the game was a deuce.
The Philadelphia gained the first
vantage point when he ripped over a
kill on a soft return of service by John
ston. The Philadelphia; however. threw
! away the next two points on a net and
an out ard the set went to the Cali
| fornian on the next point. when he sent
one sizzling down the sideline just out OF
| Tilden's reach.
shows Mastery over TiIden.
Event the most ardent boosters of Til.
den began to hedge a little after having
seen the way the little Californian bat
tied his way to victory in the opening
set He demonstrated clearly enough
then that he was the master Of Tilden al
every angle of the game. There was 8
margin of ten points between the play
ers on the set with Johnston leading al
AZ to 80. This was due mainly to the
fact that Johnston had two love games
to his credit. and In connection with this
| It might ha said that Tilden failed tC
take a love game throughout the
match.
Johnston made 81 errors. scored II
aces by placement and service aces
, Tilden, on the other hand. made PC err
rors. earned points on placement an6
| 3 on service.
The second set soon resolved Itself
into a duel on service. Johnston had 9
little the advantage of this because hi
started and hence served all OF the ode
games, and therefore Tilden never was
able TO get into the lead. For the first
Ave games the men did not have a great
deal, of difficulty making delivery count
strongly toward scoring points.
Each man was striving continually
for placements and with a great dea
Of success. The rallies were shorter ant