New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-13
Shir1nidzu Gets
Another Chance
To Beat 'Tilden
Japanese Davis Cup Star
Faces Champion To-day;
Rain Hats Title PLAY

man picture, | wonder, scene of
greater desolation and hope abandoned
than lawn tennis tournament inter
rupted and held up by a spell of rainy
weather? There were two such har-
rowing scenes in the Philadelphia dis
| trIct to-day-one at the Germantown
Cricket Club at Mannheim, where the
progress of the mems national singles
championship tourney was postponed,
and the other on the courts of the
Philadelphia Cricket Club at st. Mar
TINS, where the opening day of play in
the women's annual Middle States
championship fixture was called off
until tomorrow.
The tournament committee at Ger
mantown was anticipating a record
crowd, for two of the matches prom
! lsed to bring out the most brilliant
display of tennis yet produced on the
courts; namely, the meetings in the
third round between William M. John
ston, of California, and Vincent Rich
ards, of New York, scheduled for 2
o'clock, and the clash between those
great old rivals William T. Tilden I'd,
national and worlds champion, and
Zenzo Shimidzu, of the Japanese Davis
| Cup team.
You may travel far and not again
find two such matches on the same
day in national championship tourna-
ment, and as though these were not
enough to whet the tennis appetites of
Fhilade lphians there is the match of
even greater promise that will follow
when the winners of the two tourna-
ments | have mentioned meet in the
fourth round.
Johnston VS.. Tilden Again
Johnston and Tiden are the logical
winners and hence the logical OPP
ponents in that fourth round meeting
No more need be said. Have these
court gladiators ever failed to stir a
gallery when they faced each other
across a net? And such a match this
week should hold even more of the
sensational and the thrilling than even
the historic struggle between Johnston
and Tiden in the final round of the
national at Forest Hills a year ago.
Tilden has been slowly working back
to his top form in the last week OR ter
days. Those who saw the champion
stage his spectacular and successful
uphill fight against Shimidzu in the
Davis Cup matches at Forest Hills {
week ago are likely to see more for.
midable, more brilliant Tilden to-mor
row and Wednesday.
The rain to- day boosted little John
ston's chances considerably, in my
opinion. AS | have mentioned before
the former champion would benefit ex
tremely by an added day or two o.
rest. Not only has he been bothered
for the last three days by an attack o.
tonsilitis, but he also has been Just
wee bit overturned, it seems to me
but by tomorrow he should be prett.
nearly back to the form he showed 8
Seabright and Forest Hills.
Richards May Surprise
But, of course, we cannot take it TO
granted that Johnston is going to con
quer Richards. That is task that ha
yet to be done, and the junior cham
pion is by far too great player to b.
thus lightly dismissed in discussin;
what lies ahead at Germantown thi
week. Richards may we'll spring thu
unexpected tomorrow and turn back II
defeat the man who beat him so de
cisively at Seabright
} Tilden, Johnston, Richards, Shimidzu
Robert Kinsey, of California, all arr
grouped closely in the lower half, ant
) the fnalist in that section is certain
to be found among those five men. Thu
| going in the upper half is bound t.
, be far less strenuous, with Dick Viii
liams, Wallace F. Johnson, S. Howard
} Voshell, Francis T. Hunter, Frank 7
J Anderson, Howard Kinsey and tn,
t Australians, J. B. Hawkes. and J. O
Anderson, as the outstanding con
: tenders
: Wallace Johnson, because of hi
? great win from Watson M Washburl
; on Saturday, must not be overlo oke d
the more so if the courts are heav,
, and slippery during the remainder O
) the week He should come through
> to the semi-final round. William
meets Voshell tomorrow.
Follow Same Program
: The same program for the feature
will be followed tomorrow that wa
to have been played this afternoon, t.
wit: At II o'clock noon, Dean Mathe
: VS.. F. Gordon Lowe; J. B. Hawkes. Vi
: J. O. Anderson. At 2 p. M, Johnston
: VS.. Richards, and at 4 o'clock Tide
i, vs.. Schmidzu, with Williams and Vo
shell scheduled for 3 o'clock.
Mrs. Molla Bjurstedt Mallory, tn
> national champion, is the outsta ndin
figure in the tournament at St MAJ
tins, play in which will begin to-mol
:. row There are thirty-nine player
entered for the title now held by Mr.
M. B. Huff, of Philadelphia.
Mrs. Mallory is in the lower hal
y where her most formidable opponent
I appear te be Mrs. Gilbert Harvey, fol
:. mer champion of Philadelphia; Mr.
f Huff, Miss Phyllis Walsh. Miss Elee
\ nora Sears Miss Anne r Town