Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-23

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A Perfect Game
This method of Grifin's virtually
FEEDING the ball to Johnston via
the enemy to make the points
worked out beautifully. It is Just
the way the old Camden Eastern
League basketball team once played
The team fed the ball to the late Jackie
Adams and he did the rest. Just how
/ this worked out on the tennis court Is
! seen in the points scored column
Johnston and Griffin made ninety three
points in the three sets against Davis
and Roberts. OF these, forty one were
earned. OF those earned points. Johns
ton made thirty two and Griffin nine.
yet Griffin did not make as many errors
as Johnston. which proves how well he
did his part. BY his fine placing.
Griffin threw both Davis and Roberts
off balance so they couldn't make their
usual drives.
Probably the average spectator
! seeing that finals match at Longwood
might have thought that Griffin's shots
were soft. But they weren't. They
were soft in comparison to .Tohnston's S.
that's all. Never in his career has the
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with such tremendous speed ms he used
to capture that doubles match.
Davis and Roberts are hard htters.
too TASK Tilden and Garland), but
their shots were slow beside the drives
that Johnston pulled off.
Another Title
! BESIDES winning the national doubles
| for the third time with Johnston. Grif-
fin won the Newport singles. He de-
feated Johnston in the finals. That vie
| tory over Johnston was not in itself
very impressive because at that time
Johnston had not fully recovered from
the trip abroad and he also had had
some trouble which did not fit him
mentally for the battles he had to go
through at the Casino.
However. the fact that field at New
port consisted of all the best players in
the country except Tilden, shows that
| the winner will get a lot of points in
the rating under the new mathematical
system.
Davis and Roberts were unfortunate
in the draw at LongwoOd. They had
to work their way through n field of
the best teams that any other one team
ever had to meet before reaching the
finals while it might as we'll have been
a challenge round as far as Johnston
and Griffin were concerned. so easy
were all their matches, except the one
with Wallace johnson and Stanley
Pearson.
They left w. J. Clothier and Beals
G. Wright, Dean Mathey and Watson
Washburn, Dick Williams and Dick
Harte and Tildcn and Garland as their
waysidc victims in reaching the ulti-
mate round
Another Angle
incidentally the great work Of Davis
and Roberts shows better than anything
how well Clothier and Wright played
to carry them four sets. And Davis
and Roberts were fresh. too, when they
hit the ex champions.
The one big, pleasing thing to Phila =
delphians in the national doubles
tournament is the fact that Bill Tilden
not only lived up to his reputation but
absolutely opened the eyes of the tennis
world by the genius of his play He
showed the natives of Boston and others
who were fortunate enough to see him
play the greatest variety of strokes ever
beheld on tennis court. Also he dis
played an almost clairvoyant ability
in diagnosing his opponents shots.
Furthermore, Bill demonstrated
once and for all that as a tactician he
is in a class by himself. With all of
those assets it is small wonder that he
had the British look on in speechless
bewilderment as he breezed around the
court scoring again andl again on shots
that would have been thought impossi
bic If they had not been seen.