New-York tribune., 1921-09-05
Davis Trophy
Final Matches
This Afternoon
Japanese Players Are Likely
to Give Tilden and John
stOn Iussle at Forest Hills


This afternoon at 2:so o'clock. ON
the Championship courts of the West
Side Tennis Club at Forest Hills. VIII
liam T. Tilden Cd. worlds chamnion.
will face Ichiya Kumagae, of Janan.
and at 400 p. m. William M. John
ston, of California will meet Zenzo
Sh'midzu. of Japan, in the last two
matches of the international series for
the Davis Cup.
Ihe United States won tho cun an
Saturday, when Norris Williams and
Watson M. Washburn defeated Kuma-
gae and Shimidzu in the doubles. max
ing the third successive victory for
America in the three matches played.
Because of this, the matches this af-
1ernoon can have no actual bearing on
the hnal result. yet either match is
quite likely to provide more spirited
tennis than any of the other three that
have proceeded them.
no one who saw the stout hearted
little Shimidzu press the tall Tilden
SO desperately hard on Friday, when
eur great champion trembled on tha
very brink of defeat in the third set.
VIII willingly miss the chance of
seeing the little man from the Orient
IN action to-day against the hard hit
ting, determined, Mighty Atom" of the
courts from California. And Kumagae,
he who has held high place in the
ranking list ever since his first an
pearance in this country, is quite ia
pie to give Tilden another such strur-
gle as the champion faced when Shi
mldzu was his opponent, although I
10 not consider this probable.
Johnston Is To Be Feared
Johnston's hawless court tactics. the
power and speed of his ground strokes,
and the deadly execution wrought hv
has overland volleying, are far more
likely to give the softer-strokinc
| Shlmldzu trouble, I think, than was
the case with Tilden's brilliant hut
erratic play on Friday.
Kumagae is not the same great little
player this year that he was last sea
son. when only Tilden, Johnston and
Williams were ranked above him. His
mind does not seem to be as keenlv
cenrered on the game as was the case
before, and perhaps there is good rea-
son Tor this, since the smiling, chez T.
ful, hkable little Kumagae is going
back to Japan within the next few
weeks. and soon after he sets foot on
ms native shore he is going to take
! unto himself a little Japanese bride.
however, to-day will mark Ichiya's
iast tournament appearance on Ameri-
can courts, perhaps for all time. and
so he may have the incentive to give
OF his best to-day, even though the
chances seem to be all against him of
defeating our great Tilden.
The final doubles match in the Met
ropolltan championship tournament, on
the turf courts of the Crescent
Athletic Club, Bay Ridge, is sched-
uled for tomorrow afternoon, and
here, also. we should witness tennis Of
/ high quality and we'll worth a
Journey to see. The Crescent Athletic
Club tournament committee, headed by
Charles j. Raleigh, chairman, aided by
Albert j. Gibney, Mr.. Ditmars.
Charles Chambers, the referee, and
others, deserves full measure of
praise and appreciation for the man
ner IN which this, the irst grass court
Metropolitan championship ever held
IN this city. has been conducted.
Women's Singles Wednesday
The success of this event has placed
the Crescent Athletic Club back on the
high pedestal it once occupied as an
important tennis rendezvous.
The turf courts of the Orange Lawn
Tennis Club, at Mountain Station, N.
D., Will be given over to women's in
vitation tournament in singles and
doubles beginning next Wednesday.
with most of the greatest women play
ers in the United States among the
contenders. Mrs. Molla Bjurstedt NAL
lory, national title holder; Miss Mary
Browne, of California; Miss Leslie
Bancroft, Of Boston; Miss Helen Gill
leaudeau. of New York, end Miss
Martha Bayard, of Short Hills, N. j.,
have already entered
Down at the West Side Tennis Club.
starting tomorrow, George Agutter,
the professional, will help in conduct
ing special junior tournament for
boys. There are half a dozen little
fellows, junior members of the Forest
Hills club, who are coming along at a
remarkable rate under Agutters teach
ing. Little twelve-year- Ogden
Phipps is the most promising of these
and Stuart Gayness is another of whom
great things are predicted for the
future