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BROOKES BOWS
TO TILDEN IN
II FOUR SET TILT
Auftralian Eliminated i'm
I'm National Tennis at
Forest Hills.
MURRAY ALSO DEFEATED
Johnston, Williams and John
son Come Through to
Semi-finals.
MURRAY ALSO DEFEATED
nv EUGENE r.. o'CoNNELL.

flying. Left alone to fight the Antip-
odean battle for supremacy in the
American championship singles tourna-
Tnent at Forest Hills, Norman q.
Brookes, the dean of the masters of the
game, found the spirit only too willing,
but the flesh not equal to the task
Rrookes fought like the tennis Titan
that he is, but the best his still sturdy
right arm, his cunning, his generalship
born of long years of campaigning on
courts the world over could muster. was
rot good enough to beat back the youth
full vigor and undeniable impetuosity of
William T. Trden I'd, the lank Phila-
delphian. Though Brookes was defeated,
he managed to save one set from the
wreckage. The score was Sc, ca,
rs, 6-3.
1t was with compassion for the vet
eran but undenably with a sigh of re-
lief that the intensely American gallery.
which TANNED itself in high tiers around
the emerald turf. greeted the passing of
Brookes from the competition for the
national title. Though the elimination
Of Gerald Patterson by William NJ. John
stor the day before had cleared the at
mosphere considerably for those who
were in fear of seeing the title go over
seas for the second time in its long
history. they still harbored most whole
some fear of the one remaining Austria
1ian. And Brookes. even in defeat by
three sets to one, justified these fears.
He was Brookes the master, Brookes
the crafty general. all the way through.
hut withal he was Brookes at Al. and
that perhaps had little something to
do with the result
Yankees in Command.
The passing of Brookes left the field
altogether in possession of the Amer
q mi four trx,ix,r ave
from among the original field of 1928.
Those who passed into the semi-final
round with Tilden were William
NJ. Johnston of San Francisco.
Wallace z. johnson of Philadel-
phia and Richard Norris Williams I'd
of Boston. Johnston. the Californian,
.is:sa.o5 tac 2at!o2o. champion PcHe-t
Lindley Murray Of Niagara Falls at
81, 6-1, e., ca; johnson. the
Philadelphia. conquered Walter Merrill
Hall of New York at ca, Go, 6-2,
and williams vanquished the idol OF
American tennis. Maurice f. Mclaughlin
of Los Angeles, at 60, 6-3. 60.
The tennis yesterday was the best yet
II was steadier and more orthodox than
that of Friday, and this was bound to
he, for the tournament had been drawn
down to a position where there was littl
room for the spectacular. In yesterdays
matches the victor had to be good
workman at the game. Momentary
slips would not get by, for the men
had gone so far in the tournament that
they were supposed 20 be evenly matched
and no slips could be tolerated.
Weather Not Kind.
A thing which took a great deal out
~ the general pep" of the afternoon
was the weather. All through the morn
ing the weather man promised to be as
nasty as possible. When he was not
sending out showers of one kind or an
other, he was gathering up what re-
sources he had in the shape of clouds
TO scare away those who might like TO
look at the matches.
When he finally did lay off, some short
time before the play was scheduled to
commence, he left an awful mess. 1t
was muggy and sweltering. The tour
nament committee had lost one day in
the schedule and decided that II the rain
would keep off for any short breathing
space the matches would be put on.
And. as II came to pass that the
] o'clock battle between Murray and
Johnston was not put on until a little
after 2.
There were about a thousand follow
ers Of the game in the stands. And
those that were on hand were all dec
GRATED up with raincoats. umbrellas and
goes with rainy weather. However, as
the match in which Murray failed before
Johnston progressed folks kept altering
through the gates and long before It
was finished there was good sized
gathering on the grounds.
The weather. however. was never
promising until late in the afternoon,
when everything was practically over.
Then the sun came out of hiding and
thrust himself on the scene as If he had
been busy making people happy through
out the afternoon.
Rain Mars Sport.
Tho weather man finally did make
good his threat In the late afternoon af-
ter two sets had been played in the Til
den-Brookes and Sohnson-Hall matches.
and he made good with a vengeance.
The clouds, which had been hanging low
over the courts all afternoon, finally
burst and let out a gush Of rain that
was reminiscent of the storm which
broke over the old West Side Club up
near Van Cortlandt Park in 1918. when
the American team of Mclaughlin, Will
Jams and Hackett was playing against
the Australians, Doust, Rice, Heath and
Jones
There was only one difference, and It
was big difference. On that occasion
no one had any idea that a storm was
brewing and the gallery was. there in
me summeriest of attire. Yesterday,
however. every one thought that some
ming might happen and evidently every
one said let the weather man do his
worst for there were more raincoats
than straw hats.
Those who saw that Davis cup match
when the storm broke never will forget
me bedraggled looking young women,
"nose airy attire had been soaked be-
tore they could move from their seats.
NO more will those who were present yes
terday forget the remarkable scene when
ht train came of thousands of umbrellas
gong up in twinkling. From the
teats 1t appeared that the stands sud
denly had been covered with a black
canopy. Nothing could be seen but
multitude Of bulgee. with here and there
colored dot. which proved that some OF
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