New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-07-29
Errors OF West
Coast Player
Count Heavily
s.
Doubles Championship VIII
Be Decided on Crescent A.
G.. Courts This Afternoon
By Fred Hawthorne

OF tHs annual tourney nelo on the
courts Of the Crescent Athletic Club,
az Bay Ridge. Earlier this sumner the
brilliant junior champion mad won the
metropolitan clay court title, so to-day
he wears the double crown.
1t was hollow triumph that young
Richards gained yesterday, and In no
way compatible with the eruelling, SEN
sational victory that he wrested from
zenzi shimizu. Of Japan, in the semi
Small round on Thursday. The cham
pionship test was, in fact, an anti
climax in the tournament, owing to the
utter inability Of Kinsey to extend the
new champion.
The California boy piled up a dis
tressiug number Of errors, some Of
them on 'sitters" at the net and some
Of them the result Of Richards's forcing
shots. His total in this respect was
81, an unusually high figure in a three
set match. On earned points Kinsey
led Richards, with total Of 20 to 16,
but Richards made only At errors;
hence the balance swung strongly in
favor Of the Yonkers schoolboy
The doubles event made further
progress, but the deluge CT rain in the
late afternoon put q stop to half 8
dozen matches and these will be fin
ished to-day, starting at / Is o'clock in
the afternoon. Charles Chambers,
chairman Of the tournament committee,
and the man who has brought the Cres-
cent Athletic back into the field of
national Importance in q tennis rating,
has scheduled a long and interesting
program for this afternoon
Beginning at 2 o'clock the first Of
the Davis Cup doubles try-out matches
will be played. with William T. Tiiden
I'd, national singles and doubles cham
pion. and Vincent Richards, his part
ner IN the holding Of the national dou-
bies title, meeting K. Norris Williams
I'd and Watson II. Washburn, both Of
last years Davis Cup team.
AT $50 o'clock Gerald L. Patterson. /
Pat O'IIara Wood, J. 0. Anderson and
r. c. Werthein, the Australasian Davis
Cup team. will play in several exhibi- /
tion matches and at the same time the
semi-firal round metropolitan doubles
matches will be played The final dou-
bies match in this event Will be played
tomorrow afternoon at 4:30 O'clock. /
There are half dozen matches still to
be played to-day in the metropolitan
event.
A. lew minutes before Richards and
Kinsey began their match for the sin
giles championship William M. Johns
ton. OF California, the famous Little
RilP Of Davis Cup fame came out on
er.e Of the inner courts accompanied
ny Williams, Tilden and Washburn,
and INC four started an impromptu
doubles match, Johnston later playing
some Singles with Williams.
johnston in Condition
Johnston looked to be in splendid
physical condition and, while he was
not hitting the ball as accurately as is
CUSTOMARY with him, nothing more
could be expected, since he had barely
left the train that brought him here
From the Pacific Coast. The little for
mer champion said he was delighted to
be back in the East and was looking
forward TO the Seabrght tournament,
where he will start play on Monday.
Richards began the service against
Kinsey and rapidly ran into lead of
90. kinsey was having trouble with
his ground strokes, his chops and slices
not being the equal of Richards's sliced
drives. The junior champion had bet
ter control Of the ball and Kinsey was
forced to cover q lot of court as he
went after placed shots.
The Californian won the fourth and
sixth games on his fairly severe serv-
ice, but that was as far as he went,
Richards ending the set by winning the
eighth game to "love' against Kinsey's
delivery.
Again Richards started service in the
eecond set, but this time Kinsey, rous-
ing himself, won the game after the
points had reached deuce The Cali
fornian took the second game also, this
time at love" and il began to look as
though Richards was in for a battle.
Kinsey took the fifth and seventh,
games, breaking through both times,
but his show Of fight only caused Rich
ards TO tighten up and he reeled off
the last three games, two of them at
love and tie last one by breaking
through service.
kinsey Wins on Own Service
Once more it was Richards who
started service when the third set be-
gan. Kinsey was openly frotting at his
inability to bring of his shots. and the
best he could do was 10 win the fourth
sixth and eighth games, all on his own
service
1t was evident all the way through
thls match that Richards had made up
his mind TO play safe and not extend
himself unless necessary. The junior
champion must StlII nave been feeling
the strain Of his terrific struggle with
Shlmlzu on Thursday, and he rarely at
tempted to return the trap" shots that
kinsey dribbed over the net. Rich
ards, when he sustained his heavy fall
IN his match with Shlmzu, strained his
ankle, bruised has knee and scraped his
arm, and be showed good judgment in
nursing his injuries as far as possible
Most Of the play was from deep
court, both slicing and chopping. Kin
sey lobbed with some success in the
early stages, but Richards was "killinr"
beautifully overhead in the last set.
mailing the ball even when his oppo-
nent sent his losses deep
The thing about Riehards's play in
.his tournament that has chiefly i'm.
dressed me has been his splendid physi-
al condition. In the match against
.ehimiZu the youth did tremendous
<-nount Of running. bat his reserve
strength was remarkable, and he
finished the match stronger than the
little japanese
Whoever IS responsible for Rich
ards's present superb condition,
whether 1t is himself or an adviser, is
deserving of unlimited credit. / know
personally that the young champion
has sworn off smoking until after the
national championship, and that is one
thing that has improved his wind and
his stamina.