Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-06
Tilden, Williams, Garland,
Johnston and Hardy to
Arrive in Ne,U York on
Cu,,arder Intperator
GOING TO NEWPORT
BY SPICK HALL

New York, Aug. o.
=. MERICA's Davis Cup team is que
"A :. oomc down the gangplank of the
r,,ord liner Impcrator tomorrow. Inc
ou ,,.ot consisting of Captain Samuel
p q,ardv New York; William I. Tilden
od Germantown Cricket Club, fnila
a. ,,,hi.. A. n. Williams Sd. Boston
w,,,iom NJ. Johnston, California and
c,o,,os 8. Garland, Pittsburgh, re-
..rtlv made team and individual repu
...;.ns IN tbe courts of Europe tha'
az ~ nomo;n in lawn tennis lore as long
as the game endures. w. .-
Al the pier waiting for the winners
=, the sports will be President Jnnan =
W..;ot of the National Lawn Ienms
I..ociation: Frederick b. Alexander
watson NJ. Washburn, Paul Williams
I'D many other friends of the players.
pnS;des this official bunch there VIII oe
,.oroI batteries of cameramen ana
saioration of moving picture operators
u.;rs with each other to get the mrs,
W a. tbe new worlds champion, Bll
Tglden. and his playmates.
The team will go to Seabrignt and
,,mber IN preparatory to their matcnes
at Newport, where all nave emery,
A. AZ annual invitation tournament at
.he me Casino. It had been planned by
.nu,o ,nu of New York's flying bugs 70
sv s,oot thc Imnprator in a senplane ana
.I, ."ro tbe players to Seabright imme-
intolv IAN but this would have. been
hreacb of the quarantine rules, SO
.ho stunt was abandoned. Anyway,
.bev .be have been flying high enough in
Ts..,ond nv. - remarked an official who
nas consulted on the subject.
Tilden Won Last Year ~
II was at Newport last season that
Bill Tidcn put over his famous victory
an Rilly Johnston. only to be beaten
little later in the national finals al
l.. fTrssI Tp ioi9 On Sewportsrenewed its tourna !;
mont after a lapse of three years OF
war The meeting was the most sue
csssfuI one since the national cham
nionsbips we're taken away from the
famous Casino courts. Shortly after
the tournament began last summer,
Norman e. Brookes and Gerald H.
Patterson entered the doubles and won
rather easily. In the semifinal round
they trimmed II. n. Williams and wat
son Washburn in straight sets and in
tbp final they defeated Wallace +. John
son and Vincent Richards in a four
set match. 6-1, 6-3, 3-6. 10.
Bill Tilden was going at terrific
clp last season at the Casino. Before
he reached the finals he eliminated
Robert Kinsey, Washburn, Williams
and Howard Voshell, the Brooklyn
southpaw. In the meantime Billy
Johnston had reached the finals by win
ming from Harry G. Johnson, Boston
Thomas c. Bundy, Wallace Johnson
and Ichiya Kumagae. After that per-
formance, it was not believed that Til
den had chance. But he surprised the
fashionable gallery by beating the Cali
fornan in straight sets, S-6, TO, 6-2.
Chosen Last Spring
At the annual meeting of the United
States Lawn Tennis Association in De
cember the Davis Cup committee was
appointed. They soon chose Hardy for
captain and manager, and Tilden, John
stOn and Williams to play. The fourth
member of the team could not be de
cided upon. so the committee waited
until the ninth hour to make the Sc
lection. They settled upon Wallace f.
johnson, of the Cypwyd Club, Phila
delphia; Charles S. Garland, captain
OF the Yale tennis team and resident CT