Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-20
His Defeat, With Norris
Williams as Partner, Dis
appoints Latter in Hope.
full Trip to Australia
ROBERTS. DAYS WIN
BY SPICK HALL

,.,ruood Cricket Club. chestnut Hill,
poston, Mass, Aug. ~.
Asst winter II. n. Williams decided
/ 4 that he would begin TO groom Rich
ii Uarte. q Longwood clubman, Tor
tbe Davis Cup team.
r;,I;oms and Harte used to be in
n.,ina;ate doubles champions. no
su Watching Harte beat Tilden on the
sa. sarored courts here in pair Of wintry
cv,ohes Williams thought that his old
.ammate Of Harvard days was ripe to
,.ann,e an internationalist. With that
ps; "a In Wow he managed to have Harte =
rau ano mt m for the fourth member OF
,hnpteam na last spring, along with Chuck
Garland and Wallace f. johnson,
Tho result of that three cornered
Ant for n place on the team IL history
nerorland landed. But that didn't keep
Williams from still hoping that even :.
.uallv Hart would be chosen because OF
H. ability as a doubles player to make
,ho trim 10. Australia for-the challenge
mo,cbes. This hope in Williams $
b.aost Increased last week many fold,
rben no and his partner won the doubles
~ Eewnort. trimming Peck Grimm AMI
Pnly Johnston in the finals.
Bubble Burst
II was figured by Williams and his
poston friends that. IL they were abie
% win at Newport. thew had bet
Tor than fighting chance to capture
Ono National doubles and that. having
ron This honor, the Davis Cup com
mttee would buy Harte ticket to
tbe land of Norman f.. Brookes and
tbe kapgaroos but this bubble exploded
Yesterday with sickcning detonation as
The Boston pair went down to defeat
before the crashing. slashing tactics OF
Roland Roberts and Willis II. Davis.
the California cracks. This defeat or
the Longwood team was not merely
defeat; it was rout.
The score-6-2. 60. 6-2-dOesn t
adequately speak the superiority of the
coast players. Not once from the time
Williams began serving in the first set
until the final point was made did the
Roston team have a look in. Just how
| far they we're from ever making a show
| Ing is demonstrated by the fact that
Williams and Harte broke through
their oponents' service only once in the
/ three sets: that happened in the sixth
same Of the first set on Roberts serv-
jce after deuce had been called three
times.
A Boston man remarked after the
match that il was the greatest upset
that could have been imagined and that
Harte and Williams were 2-tO-1 fav-
orte before play began. If they were
nobody mentioned it until after the
match. As matter of fact there were
no such odds and the result was not
such huge upset.
Not Long in East i"
1t is true that Roberts and Davis
didn't do very well at Newport and
that Williams and Harte won. but it
must be remembered that the Western
ers had not been long in the East then
and that both Griffin and Johnston. who
lost to the Boston team IN the doubles
finals. had played hard four set sin
giles matches a short time before the
doubles began. while tneir opponents
were perfectly fresh.
Furthermore. the showing Of Davis
/ and Roberts in the present tournament
| had been 50 good that there were many
| exclusive of the Bostonese. that would
have waged even money on them If
takers could have been found.
In the earlier rounds Williams and
Harte had beaten H. Fl. Bundy and
B. Dell a very weak team. and then had
eliminated Nat Niles and a. s Dabney
another combination with virtually no
strength. To reach the third round
| Roberts and Davis had to beat Beals