Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-25
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,,,,,,,,ston Country Club. Wilmington,
.r,IGACE +. JOHNSON and stan
w Low W., Pearson, Philadelphia's
,..,,n, lawn tennis luminaries. will be
,.i,ndlv enemies in the upper bracket
:, ,ho singles today. then will forget the,
..,,;,c parts and work together. as a
,..r in their effort to lift few stray
snns emblazoncd with the crown of the
state Of Delaware.
s's This Ia heavy stuff and goes well here.
,,,,nno,or Pearson and johnson meet
,s n battle. They have played
lnsi; l;,st each other In singles on nu
asa.n orons occasiops. anG the national
In,;Gno,ist, has not always won the de-
stI,on II does not take the oldest in
tsh;tant 70 remember when STANLEY de-
hsyW s,otsS Wallace in play for the Philadel.
rt;o and district championship. That
Ia" ra,a seycral years ago, but as neither has
Nhon0cd greatly in his game during that
ner;od, Wilmington followers OF tennis
ORC hoping TO see a great mntcn;;, AM,
tbcrc Is little doubt that they viii get
their hope.
Johpsop Pearson Fav0rite
In the doubles It appears that the
rav Is fairly clear for johnson and
PEARSON TO the title. Their hardest op-,
nosition is likely to be the Thayer
brothers. , ,.
ncan Mathcy and Carl Fischer out.
TLis wos thr big doubles match OF the
tournament in Spitc of the fact that it
oon,n in thc first round. The winners
took over the losers by the count OF
Sc. 6.".
4 notable feature of the first set was
thc fact that Fischer and Mathey had
Pearson and Johnson 6-5 and 40 30.
one point from the set. But Pearson
and Johnson were equal to the occa-
sion and then some. They took the next
rcInt. and after deuce had been called n
couple more times they won the game
and tied the count at O all.
Then Mathey and Fischer broke in
.Lcir game lust long enough to allow
their steady opponents to grab the next
two games and tho set. In the second
got neither Mathcy nor Fischer played
IN to the form displayed in tho first set.
and they lost this with only three games
to their credit.
Fischer in Form
Fischer was in good form yesterday.
particularly in the carly part of the first
set. His overhead smashes were ex-
celleDtly executed. Many of these high
bounding slashes hoped so far over
Johnsons and Pearson's heads that
they made no efforts to return them.
Fischer also had his ground strokes
working we'll and number of times he
scored poiuts by slash;ng drives down
the side lines or short cross court
strokes that were unplaYkble.
Mathcy's game was mot fawless,
nevertheless he gave fine exhibition.
his volIpying was good and his over
head work was severe In the extreme.
Pearson and Johnson worked well to-
sether aud this coupled with their an
moving steadiness. threw both of their
opponents somewhat off. at least suffi-
GENTLY far of to allow, them to win.
When Johnson and Pearson were forced
to resort to lObbing, they did it in great
style. their tosses being high and deep.
Pearson kept up his record as a
California killer by putting Wallace J..
Bates ont Of the running in straight
sets 80. 6-i This battle was much
better than the one Bates put up
against Pearson at the Merton Cricket
Club last week. Pearson put both
Levy and Bates out Of the tournament
here and at the Pennsylvania tourna :