The New York herald., 1922-08-23
Williams Washburn Victory
Over Al0nzo-De Gomar Is
6-4, 6-1, 6-2.
KINsEYs IN CLOSE CALL
w. e. Davis and III. c. Johnson
Give Coast Champions Scare
in Nationals.
ny SAMUEL J. BRooKmAN.

afternoon of tennis on the LongWooo
Cricket Club courts three results STOOD
out above the rest to-day In the Sec
ond and third rounds of the national
doubles championship. The first was
the triumph of the American Davis
cup doubles pair Of 192l-R. Norris
Williams and Watson Nj. Washourn--
over the Spanish team OF Manuel
Alonzo and Count de Gomar In the
initial clash between United States
and foreign internationalists. The Sec
ond\was the unexpected defeat OF the
veteran team of Samuel Hardy and
s. Howard Voshell at the hands OF the
vouthful combination of Arnold Jones
and w w Ingraham, and the third
was the uphill struggle to victory OF
Robert and Howard Kinsey, Pacific
coast champions. in a hard fought
five set match that provided many an
anxious moment for the Californians.
While the Spanish Davis cup doubles
team must be given credit for offering
a much sterner fight than the score OF
Cd, 6--1, 6--2 indicates, their defeat
could not be termed other than decisive.
They were mighty agile pair. Alonzo
and De Gomar. alert, catlike in their
ability to pounce on a ball and send II
back from all sorts of difficult positions.
but when 1t came to strategy, to control
at important stages and to concerted
play, the foreigners could not match the
Americans, who seemed to goow more
effective, more precise and swifter with
each succeeding set.
AIonzo UphoIds Reputation.
Alonzo proved to the Boston tennis
gallery that he Is every bit as fast In
covering court as he was reported to be-
He was restless. highly charged live
wire from first 10 last and his sensa-
tional recoveEies made the match spec
tacular in the extreme. The American
pair, however, played so we'll and with
such splendid precision and decision that
Albnzo and De Gomar found it impos-
sible to keep pace with the ball and the
match slipped away from them quickly.
For one set the tussle was fairly
evenly fought, the speed of the Span
iards showing to advantage before the
Americans had settled down to their
best tennis. In fact, there was only one
break through service. and that. coming
in the tenth game, gave Williams and
Washburn the set at to 4. But in
the second set the superiority Of the
Americans began to assert itself unmis-
takably and the best the Spanish pair
could do was to win one game. In the
third che score went to to 2. and
then williams and Washburn took the
next three games in ending the match.
For the Americans there was the sat
isfaction of knowing that they had
triumphed as easily over the Spanish
team as the Australians. Gerald Patter-
son and Pat O'Hara Wood. had scored
IN the Davis cup final at Philadelphia.
and that fact points TO mighty tussle
in the semi-fnal when Williams and
washburn in all probability meet their
Australian rivals.
Kinseys Drop Early Sets.
The Kinseys dropped the first two
sets OF their match with the untried
combination of Willis L. Davis of San
Francisco and Harry G. Johnson OF Bos-
ton, but were also very close to defeat
in the third. They steadied none COO
soon, and It took all their tennis wits
md some remarkably persistent court
covering to turn their opponents back.
At that the third set went TO IL to 10.
the longest of the tournament before
the Pacific coast champions succeeded
in clinching it. If Davis. who flashed
some brilliant overhead smashing and
decisive volleying in the first two sets,
had been able to maintain his whirl-
wind pace and his excellent control just
a bit longer than he did, the upset OF the
tournament would have been recorded.
johnson was fairly steady all through
the match and no fault could have been
found with his generalshlp, but he was
not nearly ms decisive as his partner
and his soft service was hammered for
winning points In the last sets. With
the Kinseys placing beautifully in the
latter half OF the match Davis was not
as effective or as brilliant as in the
early stages OF the match. His service
too began to lose its sting and the
Kinseys came on 10 a well deserved
triumph at Sc. 4-s, 12-1o. Ga,
6-2.
vosheII and Hardy OutpIayed.
yoshel and Hardy were clearly out
played by Jones and Ingraham, the
young collegians surprising not only
by their superior control but by the fire.
quency with which they outgeneraled
their experienced opponents. The Prov
idence youngsters have improved won
derfully within year. Speed and
stamina, too, were on the side or the
youths and when In the fourth set
Hardy and Noshell by a determined
rally came within a point Of making the
score two sets all. the forcefui attack
Of the Jones-Ingraham team checked
them. The score was 6--2. 7--5, Ga
10--S.
Tilden and Richards. playing through
champions, scored with expected eass
over HoIcombe Ward and Dwight Il
Davis, the team that represented Amer
lea in the first international tennis
match twenty-five years ago. The vet
erans demonstrated that they retained
all their former cunning and court Graf
and they covered court surprisingly well
but the dynamic hitting and all around
speed OF the present day Champion
proved too strong for them. The con
test, although decidedly interesting
ended I'm straight sets. 60, 6--3, 6--1.
Gerald Patterson and Pat OHart
Wood meeting comparatively weak op
ponents came through two matches will
tho loss of only four games in six sets
The new but powerful combination o.
Within M. Johnston Of San Francisc,
and wallace r. Johnson Of Philadel
phla also yielded very few games II
two contests and indicated clearly tina
they viii be hard team To beat. John
stons forehand rarely has been NOR,
devastating IN its power and finalisy
The close Of the second days play saw
only ten OF tho thirty-seyen teams un.
beaten.
women Have strong Field.