Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-09-07
Each Has Beat Other Three
Times; Meet at Mannheim
This Week in East-West
Matches ID g..
MIST BREAK TIE
n. spICK HALL

-ur,,AM r. TILDEN, I'd, Phila-
W,.,,,;o,s second son to capture
w delp.i lawn tennis championship.
S.s won higher honors on ovsr .re aonr.
no-rts than any man tnuC n;s ~; niav.
ishea Long dreamed Of winning the
ers nv nv, ,rowS at wimbledon, then com
woriu and adding the diadem OF tne
ins ny" States to their collection Oh
uni.eub headwear, but 1t was never
triu,nn,pni,sbcd until yesterday when our
acc, flmsht his way to victory at for-
bih II;Iis L. l., through hve Oh tne
est n,r;ously contested sets ever seen
most nnis court. His victim was VIII
on Inbnstop, the dynamic: ngnslns
l. laH So,;fornian who had twice. before
nttIe no American championship ana
Won ,ss, .~ vcor defeated Tildcn in stralght
s,ts in the finals,
nj. ,ount between Tilden and John-
atom now stands three all. oohn ouoa
Scat Tilden twice last suh,lLe n,Snne
peas pearh;cogo IN the clay court champion, ,
MSn'enSS ouS at Forest Hills. He followed
snip' 90 Inv heating him In the Queen .
Club tournament for the cha'np''n'"'p
OF London.
victories Last Year
Two of Tilden's victories over J3hn :
..,n came in 1910. the first at New.
uort and the second in the EAST Wsst s
po",,hos ot Cincinnati. Yesterday I'll
,hu,M, a.n evcned the score by beating his op-
nonent non from the Golden Gate by the
ioaro of 81, 10. is, 81, 6-3. And
ssO,' ssot Isn't the end Of the long battle
o, ,na. ,hcse masters of the court
u. foct the tic will be broken this
mook for they are booked to meet
oao;n and this time here in Philadei :
aSio where Tilden learned his tennis
apnJ whore the followers of athletics Will
have a chance % see their fellow towns
,nan meet the man who is probably the
vrsatest player in the world excepting
himself.
This contest will be staged on the
turf courts of the Germantown Cricket
Ch,b nc one of the East West events
which are scheduled for Thursday, FRI
day and Saturday.
The other players who will be seer
here have been chosen and were an
nounced last night by the committed
romposed Of Beals G.. Wright, Boston
Holcombe Ward and William II. Con
The eastern team will be made Of
Tilden, r. n. Williams. I'd, Boston
Wallace +. johnson, Cynwyd Club
Charles S. Garland. Pittsburgh: G
Colket Gamer, Philadelphia, and Watson
NJ. washbun, New York. The double.
team for the East will be Tilden ant
Wllliams; johnson and Washburn
Garland and Gamer.
The western doubles teams will bt
Johnston and c. j. Griffin, San Fran
cisco; Roland Roberts and Willis II
Davis. San Francisco: W. Il. Hayes
and Ralph Burdick, Chicago. These
men will also play in the singles events
The Wrong Dope
By beating Johnston, Tilden fulfilled
every hope and expectation Of the thou
sands of followers he has all over thu
country. 1t was predicted by som,
before the match that, no matter how
good Tilden really might be, he woult
N2er beat Johnston in an important en-
ment Just how wrong this prog
y MstcatiOn was is shown by yesterday,
battle.
Tildcn not only got the momentou
dorSion. but he did it in such convinc
ing manner that it is doubtful If there il
person who saw the match who viii
not admit sthat Tilden has the edge OIL
johnston in every respect. with the ex
eeptlon OF fighting spirit. and there i
Justly may be called a draw.
Johnston fought with every ounce o
MS energy to win, but he didn't hgh
any harder than Tilden. The Philadel
phian showed greater resource in con
serving his energy, but his battle wa
!ust as gamely fought as his conquered
In the fourth set, when Johnston wa
uring very rapidly and was utterly fail
ing TO put his old time punch into hi
strokes, Umpire Eddie Conlin called tn
match temporarily on account of a ligh
shower. There was no reason to hal
at all and the twenty minute res
was wonderful boon to Johnston.
Score Was Tie
Inc score at the time the match wa,
s'oppeu was two sets to one in Tilden'
,aV0r' four all in games and thirty a.
IN the ninth game, with Tilden serving
.Iany player would have gone com
WeteiF to pieces when the rest wa
catIed Tor and his rival appeared great,
ieireshec after 1t, but not Tilden. |
true that he faltercd long enorgl
10 drop the set, but he got himsel
together in splendid style in the fina
set and won it at 8-3.
Beginning the last set Tilden had an
otner mental hazard that he overcam
~ mastery fashion. He had Just los
the set that would have given him tn
championship, when he was once With,
TWO points of the match and once within
1he point of it and on each occasio,
uac fslled to put over the winnin
strokes because of over anxiety. III
was up at the net each of these time
ana had miserably weak return frou
Johnston that looked to be made t
order for smashing kill. But It WASH
De- the net stopped each of thos
three shots from Tilden's racquet.
thinking that over made 1t doubl
hard for Tilden to settle down to hi
pest tennis, but he hurled the hazar
ana playing almost narfa,tly n,aob n ~ n