Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-09-11

two matches out Of three. This hap
pened also on the opening day, leaving
the trans -Mississippians two down, as
1t were, with three to go. On the first
day OF the three day tournament,
Davis, of the West, defeated johnson.
of the East Garland, East, beat Bur
dick. Of the West, and Tilden and
Williams, Of the East. trimmed the
national champions, Johnston and
Griffin, representing the West. Yes
tterday Williams again heeled out by
beating Griffin in the singles and John
son and Washburn won from the west
erners, Davis and Roberts. although
Dean Mathey, who was batting for G.
Colkcr Gamer, was licked by Walter T.
Hayes, of Chicago.
exceedingly interesting one. although no
one thought it would be before it began.
Mathey began by taking the first two
sets at 6-1, 6-2. Nothing to It mur-
INJURED the gallery. But there was
something to it. Hayes. the greatest
nocturnal athlete Of all time. came back
with mighty splash. He ran out the
third set at 6-3, the fourth at 81 and
the last Mt 10, after real battle.
-NIathey Wealtens
In the second set, Mathey began to
weaken. He seemed to be in very poor
physical condition and was unable to
keep his game at sea level after he won
other hand. was not able to do any
thing at all in the first two sets. In
the first place. he was worried by the
low bounding balls which refused to hop
up because of the slow, wet turf. How
ever. somebody must have wound up
the alarm clock. for Hayes woke up
and when he realized that it was an
other day he went to it in way that
had Mathey calling for help.
The last, match of the afternoon saw
r. n. Williams, I'd. of Boston, win
from Peck Griffin, of San Francisco,
national doubles champion. The count
was Ga, 6-3, SO, G-3. Griffin began
with rush by taking three games
right off the reel. While that was hap
pening Williams made only two points,
both in the first game. Then the Davis
Cup player got busy, and instead of
where he tried. with the result that he
took four games in row. Griffin got
another game. but Williams took the
set, annexing the two following games.
After Williams had taken the second
set, his game again went off slightly.
and he lost the third set to Griffin at
6-3, for the same reason that he lod
the first three games of the match--his
shots were just missing their destina-
ton. But Williams found himself
finally and took the match by winning
the third set at 6-3.
Aviators seem to think that it Is q
very funny thing to find big crowd
and then circle over them, doing a lot
of aerial stunts. Maybe it was funny
once, but it isn't any more. Last Mon
day at Forest Hills, while Tilden and
Johnston were playing the national
finals, a couple of sky artists tried to
thrill the crowd by flying all around
the place, just a few hundred feet above
the stands. They were rewarded for
their trouble by having their engine 60
dead and falling to their death just out
side of the stands. If the machine had
fallen inside the enclosure hundreds
probably would have lost their lives.
Down on Long Island the army au-
thorities are said to have ordered that
no more fliers are allowed to pull off
their stunts above crowds. 1t is to be
hoped that this is true and also that the
authorities in this vicinity give the
same order.
Yesterday while Griffin and Williams
were battling, machine came into
view at great height But it didn't
stay high long. The pilot did lot Of
playful stuff Immediately above the
heads of 5000 spectators.
Ordinarily this would not have been
noticed, but many of those present at
the Germantown Cricket Club had seen
the Forest Hills accident and they had
not forgotten 1t.