The sun., 1919-08-26

cisco at Southampton last Saturday
inc veteran Australian has no trouble
outguesstng and outmaneuvring the av-
erage tents player. In fact he frequently
outguessed Davis on Saturday, but Il
availed him little because he could not
get the Californian's fast drive back In
good shape.
This weakness should be a serious
drawback for Brookes, as there are any
number of Americans who hit the bali
hard. Murray. Williams. Johnston, Ku-
magae, Voshell. Hall, Tilden, Richards,
Mclaughlin, Davis. Garland, Griffin and
some few others would be hard men for
Brookes to beat at the present time Just
on this account.
II is a remarkable coincidence that
Patterson suffers from the same failing
II Is true Of course that Patterson has
not been seen in singles in this country,
and 1t Is rather difficult to Judge a mans
singles games from what he does in
doubles. However II a man is weak IN
any one department OF the game It is
bound to show up whether he is playing
singles or doubles. and n the case of Pat
tterson his helplessness against hard hit
drives has stood out glaringly.
Jap Looks Good.
1t would appear then that II the cham
| pionship is to go out of America II is
more likely that 1t will go TO Japan than
| to Australia. This Is true because Ku-
magae has been playing great tennie, in
fact better tennis than ever before. The
little Jap has 4 wonderful attacking
weapon in his hoop stroke.
This stroke has been tried by many a
player heretofore. but no one has brought
| II to the state of perfection that the Jap
has AL Of the stars realize now that the
| one sure way Of beating the Oriental Is
to give him no chance to hoop the ball.
| The Jap can easily be upset by change OF
| pace and concerted and sustained attack
| On his backhand.
Tildens best features are his long
reach. his deadly underspin and his ma
| chine like accuracy. Many a good
| player has met defeat at the hands Of
| Tilden through trying to engage in a
duel at the net with the Philadelphia.
rDden has a wonderful knack of whip
ping back short ball for placement
Voshell had the Philadelphia beaten
at Newport as long as he had his drives
| going deep. Just as soon as Voshelrs
returns shortened up. he was gone. Til
denis underspin is likely TO be>effective
! against any player in the country, es-
pecially II the turf is a little heavy.
Under good conditions, however, Tide n
will have to. place his reliance in &c
curacy and speed rather than in these
| freak shots.
Bill Johnston's game is sound from
every angle His strokes practically are
letter perfect and he knows how ana
| when to use each individual one. He
looks more like champion than any of
the others, and IL upsets and form re-
versals could be eliminated. should win
the tournament hands down. The little
Californian has practically no weakness
in his game.
Murray will try to hold the title
which he won last year and will be a
hard man to beat The ler handler has
been playing In fine form and is bound
to be there or thereabouts in the last
stages of the tourney. Ills defeat by
Kumagae in the Newport tournament
should be no indication OF weakness. fer
} II came only in five sets and then after
Murray had played a hard four set con.
test with Niles.