New-York tribune., 1919-08-12

"a, or Philadelphia, and Vincent
champions, in the challenge round or
According to the prearrangcd
scedule. only two matches were played
to-day Richard Norris Williams. 2nd.
and Watson NJ. Washburn, New Eng
land champions, defeating lchiya
kumagae and Harold A. Throckmorton,
Middle States champions. by a score of
t. l. Sc. 6-l. St in the first round,
and Maurice Z. Mclaughlin and Thomas
c. Bundy, of California, Pacific Coast
champions. vanqushing Willis Davis
and Van Dyke Johns. of California,
Western champions, by a score of Ga
81 4-6 Cd
Inc two matches brought the doubles
event into the second round complete,
and this is the way they will face one
ano her tomorrow afternoon: Fred
erick r. Alexander and S. Howard No-
shell. tri-state title holders. vs.. r. Y.
Thomas and Randolph Lycett. of Aus
tralia Norman L. I}rookes and Gerald
i. Patterson, of Australia, rs. Williams
and Washburn; Mclaughlin and Bundy
vs.. Conrad B. Doyle and Fred II. Har-
ris, Middle Atlantic champions. and
William NJ. Johnston and Clarence j.
Griffin, of California. Northwestern
champions, VS.. L. Thalheimcr and
Leven Jestor, Southwestern champions.
HS oSiii-iIdl IOuIO VIII bc PldEeU
on Wednesday, the final on Thursday
and the challenge round on Saturday,
with Friday day of rest for the VIM
ners of the tournament. so as to place
them on more nearly equal terms. with
the standing-out champions.
1000 See Two Matches
Boston takes to its tennis seriously,
as with most things. and there was a
crowd of about 1000 followers Of the
game IN the stands when the first
match began. There was not much to
rouse the blood in the playing this af-
ternoon and the sun was very hot and
the humidity. yet everybody seemed to
thoroughly enjoy the two matches,
particularly when Williams and Wash
burn, long favorites in this classic at
mosphere, defeated kumagae and
Throckmorton
While these two first round meetings
were taking place, Brookes and Pat
terson INDUCED in soma needed prac-
tice against Thomas and Lvcett on one
of the outer courts and fully half the
crowd adjourned to that spot to watch
the foreign invaders play. Boston has
a horrible suspicion that one Of these
Australian teams is going to walk away
with the American doubles title, and
50 they are going to be watched closely
from now on.
The success of the team of Brookes
and Patterson in winning the great
tournament at Newport on Saturday,
when they conquered Wallace T. John
son and Vincent Richards in the final
rourd. after defeating Williams and
Washburn in an earlier bracket, GER
taInly makes the men from the other
side Of the world look like very danger
Gus contenders for the premier honors
Brookes and his young partner Will
defeat Williams and Washburn again
tomorrow, and by more decisive
margin than at Newport, unless the
New England champions take q decided
brace. Williams particularly was very
erratic this afternoon. making some
almost ineXcusable errors all through
the match Had it not been for Wash
burn, who played the best game Of the
four. Kumagae and Throckmorton
might easily have reversed the score
Mclaughlin Disappoints
McLoughlin was also a disappoint-
lnent to his most enthusiastic sup
porters to-day. He was so infinitely
much slower than the flaming Comet"
of old, both as to stroke and speed Of
court covering, that the dete roration
in his work must have been striking
for two or three years. 1t used to be
said of Red Mac" and truly, that
offering a lob to him in a match was
like offering a sacrifice on the altar
Of the gods it was doomed to q speedy
end. But such is not the case to-day.
Several times this afternoon Davis
or Johns lobbed to McLoughlin, and
the former champion smashed the ball
either into the net or far out to the
it strikes me that Mclaughlin does not
make his shots nowadays with the
same allintuitive facility Of knowing
what to do and when to do it that
distinguished his work when he was
riding at the top Of the heap. Now he
seems to think out each shot just be-
fore he makes it, and without great
success. His play lacks that wonder
full spontaniety OF youth and unshak
him unbeatable, and |, for one, do not
believe he viii ever get it back.
= 1t was a case of "nativc son" against
native son" when McLoughin and
Bundy took the court against Davis and
Johns All four learned their game
on the asphalt courts Of California,
although there is q wide difference in
their respective styles.
AS they played to-day, the tall and
angular Davis was easily the best OF
the four, with Bundv next and Nc
Loughlin third. Johns was poor last,
his work not being up to the standard
except on rare occasions. Had the
hard hitting Davis been backed up with
a stronger partner, it is highly prob
able that the former doubles cham
pions would have tasted defeat this
afternoon.
Johns Plays Poorly
There were many chances for Johns
to score the winning points with a
timely smash. do not mean a Muir
ray or Tilden or Gerald Patterson,
cannon ball" smash, for only the
chosen few can do that, but an ordi-
nary, well-hit smash. But Johns could
not or would not take the chance. He
hit softly, gently. cautiously, when
the situation called for more drastic
action, and Davis, who had won thun-
ders of applause from the gallery sew
eral times through tremendous gets"
of placed shots, saw all his work done
in vain. for nine times out of ten
Johns's easy treatment Of the ball
enabled Mclaughlin and Bundy to
eventually win the point.
Johns was far mere effective at vol
leying, and here he did his share of the
work, several times scoring the needed
points by skimming the ball past
Mclaughlin By shooting it across fore
court at sharD ancles Purdy while