Evening star., 1921-09-04

On Monday Tilden VIII play
Kumagae. while Johnston crosses
racquets with Shimidzu. The outcome
Of these two singles matches. row
ever, Will not affect the status Of the
international play for the season of
1921.
Americans Greatly Superior.
. The victory of the American dou-
bles pair. which eliminated in the re-
tention of the cup against the chal-
lengers of twelve nations, was not as
closely fought out as the scores woula
appear to indicate. Williams ana
Washburn, as a team, were clearly
superior to kumagae and Sflmiozu'
particularly in the f1nalit? OF tneir
strokes. Streaks of erratic playing
and error-making at times marred
the play of the victors. The Japan
ese, however, while they stroked the
ball with the same care and enectlve-
ness in their singles play. did not pair
well together. They were frequently
thrown out of position or lined up IN
the middle of tie court. where they
interfered with the freedom OF each
others strokes.
1t was on. their earned points that
the Americans won. and IL was in the
scoring of these placement and serV-
ice aces that they showed clearly su-
perior to their oriental opponents. In
addition williams and Washburn were
a comparatively evenly balanced team
which could not be said OF the jap
anese.
ence in the earned honors of the
Americans. whereas kumagae had al
most twice as many as ShlmldZu- 10
offset this, however, kumagae was
/, less steady than his teammate ano
the Japanese made less errors than
dt,a in
, , tendency to avoid taking chances for
winning smash. While Williams
and Washburn had the same number
of placements to their credit, VII
liams piled up far more errors than
/ the New Yorker. The same was true
| in a general way of Kumagae. who
tried at times to make a forcing figh.
against the winners.
storm Delays Match.
The match was played under diff.
culties, a terrific thunderstorm inte.
vening a the end of the third set at.
delaying play for almost two hour
! Both teams were given a noisy greet
ping and applause continuing fo
| several minutes after the winnin
stroke had been made, notwithstanu
! ing that the match did not produI
the sensational volleys and strokiI
of the ball which the spectators hu
After the teams returned to Tn.
| clubhouse humagae, as the capital
of the challenging nation. said tn
4 he and his teammate were very we.
satisfied with the result of Japan
hrst appearance in the role of Dayi
cup challenger
He said further that they wer.
| pleased and proud to have reach.
the challenge round and would ent.
| a team Tor the cup next year
Numagae said that they were d
Teioping number of new playe,
IN Japan and that there would 10
huch surprise in the United Star,
when they came to this country n,
! was realized the rapid strides th.
tennis was making in Japan.
Mile. Lenglen III Arafn.
Mile Suzanne Lenglen. the fa,n,;.
rrench woman tennis player. was
nave appeared in mixed doubles e.-,,
play. laws ee.
| She was present in the clubhouse rs
Mas Mas ner partner Vincent Richa rds
Davis of California were to have been
tnelr opponents. Mile. Lenglen an
| nounced later in the afternoon that
she was too i'll to play. however. Her
second failure to go through with ex-
pected play at the West Side courts
necessi.ated the substitution of a
mems doubles match
More than three thousand specta-
| tors remained to see Clarence Tod
| and J. Q. Anderson of Australia
meet Willis Davis and Dean Mathew
The two pairs proved evenly matched
and the most sensational playing Of
| the day ended with the score nine
games all. when it grew so dark thai
ii was impossible to follow the flight
! of the BAH.