Evening star., 1922-08-04

Johnston and Williams played throu
Williams IN the semi-finals mastered
Francis T. Hunter of New York. g.
81, and Johnston eliminated Robert
Kinsey of San Francisco, 6-1. Ct.
The final in women's singles will
stedt Mallory. the national champion.
and Miss Leslie Bancroft Of West
Newton Mass.
Mrs. Mallory won her place IN the
final by defeating Mrs. May Sutton
Bundy of Los Angeles. 6-3, So and
Helen Wills of San Francisco, 6-3,
6-3
Both Set Fast Pace.
In defeating the conqueror of Ger
aid Patterson Williams played at the
summit of his form. He succeeded.
where Patterson had been unable to.
because he knew how to handle Hun
ter's speed. Patterson said after his
match with Hunter that never before
had he faced such terrific pace as
Hunter launched against him. Hunter
hit just as hard and well yesterday,
but Williams met the onslaught with
out the slightest perturbation, and
frequently turned Hunters hottest
shots into placements for himself.
That was the feature of Williams
victory. Hunter would send over
those catapultic forehand drives OF
his. we'll angled across court to the
sidelines, and Williams would make
magical gets off them. catching them
usually on the volley and not only
return them safely. but send them
back for clean aces. This must have
been nightly discoura ging to Hunter.
Beautifully directed and tiercely
paced shots that nine times out of
ten should have meant placements
were transformed into ammunition
lianos would meet them with block
volley. showing marvellous control in
just dropping the ball over the net.
Sometimes he would change pace of
the ground. Sometimes he would re-
turn them as swiftly AS he received
them for whiriwind passing shots.
Always he would dc the unexpected.
Displays Lots of Speed.
On his own account the former
champion had plenty Of speed. His
service was keeping in court and his
second ball was offering as much diff
fculty as the first. His overhead hit
ting, always aimed at the lines. rarely
half volley We're characteristicaliy
brilliant. With Williams playing his
boldest. most daring< tennis, Hunter
proved his high worth by the caliber
of his opposition, especially in forcing
the former champion into sixteen
occasion coming within two points of
winning the set
This was when Hunter was leading
rs, with the points 1880 on Will
liams service in the fourteenth game
Hunter netted on TWO forcing shots
and Williams sent over a placement
to pull himself out of danger. In the
twelfth game of this set the points
reached deuce seven times before
Hunter won it. William ms obtained the
oil no WI ha toh iy,
the last game. which he captured with
Hunter at Is. Two placements and
two forced errors turned the trick.
The final point was deep volley to
the sideline close to the baseline.
which caught Hunter wide of posi-
ton.
Williams made twice as many place
n7ents as Hunter. the exact figures
being 81 to 10. He made TWO service
aces to one and fftytsix- errors. IN
seven errors. including five double
faults.
Johnston In Fine Form.
Johnston played the best game he
has shown all week IN his match with
kinsey. He fairly overwhelmed Kin
sey in their first, scoring ten place
ments to one and making twelve err
rors to sixteen. For the first time
this week john Ston was advancing to
the voI1ey. instead of basing his whole
attack upon driving. He had pro-
found respect for kinsey's admirably
controlled chops and drives and cut
them short at the net whenever he
had an opening. Often he forced the
openings by his famous wal,oping
forehand drives and he was accuracy
itself in his severe finishing shots.
Kinsey was troubled by a sore foot
toward the end of the set and was
Imping through most of the second
session But this did not prevent him
from raising the effectiveness of his
game several notches and giving
Johnston a genuine tussle. Johnston
had to work overtime for everything
he got IN this session. Kinsey's con-
troll was much better than in the first
set and he was hitting harder. john
ston outplaced him, ten points to SIX.
and that they were a match in steadi-
ness is atteSted by the fact that but
one point separated them in the de-
partment of errors. Johnston made
twenty-three and Kinsey twenty
four, three of Kinsey's being double
faults.
Fireworks in Doubles.
The fireworks in the doubles match
between the kinseys and the Japa-
nese pleased the biggest gallery OF
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