Evening star., 1922-09-03

INC american team apart. NO grcf
multiple requirements has been sc
Anthony Wilding. the famous Aust
match on the same stretch of turf
time since that year that Australia
the United States in Davis cup pla
The challenging combination was
simply invincible this afternoon.
Wood and Patterson so completely
outplayed Tilden and Richards that
the latter appeared almost in the
Tight of novices by comparison, Ger
tainly as team partners they played
in the light of strangers. There was
no department of the play in which
the Americans stood out as superior
to the Auzzies.
Wood Plays Brilliantly.
Outshining the other players on the
court was Pat OHara Wood. No sucn
exhibition of lightninglike stroking
and thinking has been Witnessed
since Brookes flashed his racquet
eight years ago. No ball was too
fast or stroke too quick for Wood to
return. His instantaneous sense OF
an opening and his meteorlike re-
turns from close to the corded bar
rier stood both Richards and Tilden.
hguratively speaking. on their heads.
In fact the latter frequently brought
rounds of laughter from the 1900
spectators composing the gallery
when he instinctively ducked these
flashing shots instead of attempting
their return.
Patterson, ranging wide in the
deeper recesses of the court. proved
a wonderful supporting partner to
Wood. His full-length smashes fire.
auently forced either Tilden or Rich
ards into errors or weak returns that
offered easy opportunities for Woods
finishing shot. When Patterson HIM
Self came up to the net to aid his
partner-and these occasions were
frequent-he also launched terrihc
drives and kills. sometimes sending
the ball on the bound into the stands
back of the court in a manner made
famous by Maurice McLoughlin a few
!,ears ago.
Driven Ont Of Position.
Brilliant as Tilden and Richards
are individually. they could offer no
sustained defense to the perfected
attack OF their opponents. They
were repeatedly forced back beyond
their own base line. split wide apart
10 the corners of the court or aligned
behind each other in the center of
their own territory by the tactics of
the down under" players; Forced
into these unorthodoX positions, they
exposed themselves to easy passing
shots or piled up nets and outs.
There were times when both Til
den and Richards flashed fieeting
periods of sensational play. The
towering Philadelphia would set his
cannon-b ball service going for serv-
ice aces. stroke returns with ire
sistible force or puzzling slice, but
none of this work continued for any
length of time. Richards. too. rose
to great heights in few slashlng
duels with Wood when the pair
stood ten or twelve feet apart with
the net separating them.
In the sixth game of the final set
Tilden aroused the spectators to
cheering heights with three service
aces. but few moments later the
match went into history when Rich
ards netted two balls in row. CIV
ing the Australians their victory
Earned Points Tell Tale.
An analysis of the point score and
stroke department of the match.
which took but fifty minutes to play.
shows that the Australians as team
made sixty errors to ridden ana
Richards 6l Opposed to this and
In reality the winning factor of the
match was thirty three earned points
by Wood and Patterson to ten for
the Americans. Wood netted the
ball thirty-eight times to Patter-
sons twenty-one. which was not out
of proportion. considering that he
was camped at the cord most of the
time He had almost twice as many
outs as Patterson and almost twice
as many placements
Tflden was credited with fourteen
mats and ten outs to Richards TWEEN
ty-three and fourteen. The American
youth, playing his first Davis cup
match. scored six placements to III
denis one, however, while the Phila-
dslphian made three service aces In
the game mentioned and two double
faults at other portions of the play.
Australia's batting average. II the
term can be used in tennis; was
about 333, while the United states
team average fell below 30 per cent.
Richards Praises Rivals.
Vincent Richards declared that the
game displayed by the Australians
was super tennis; ,.s
"They played their second shots
for points and 1t was impossible to
figure them" he said.
wood was too much, he ADDED
In commenting on the doubles match
s'ais cross-court shots were well
timed and well placed. Nobody could
Patterson repeated his remark Of
yesterday; nRattiins e9od si1as tennis sfter en-
the match. Il never played better IN
my life" he said.
He declared that whatever speed
of racket and eye that he might
ordination he attributed to boxing.
He told friends that ever since he
was a small boy his father had ins
structed him in and kept him boxing:
"It Is the training both In hand and
foot as well as eye that has enabled
mo to see. think and act with the
Rpeed upon which you compliment
me-" said Wood.
n Davis and Ward Score.
After the international doubles today,
Dwight W. Davis of st. Louis and Hol-
combe Ward, New York, defeated j. ID.
p. Jones and Arthur Ingraham Of
Providence, SIS. 63, in the final round
of the veterans' national doubles
This match. held over from Longwood
because Of. weather conditions on the
Massachusetts courts. brought victory
Tor Ward and Davis through their SUI
perior play at the net.
Alfonso Defeats Shimizu-
Manuel Alfonso of Spain defeated
Zenzo Shimizu os Japan in two-set
exhibition match. rs. So.
Both men played brilliantly. there
we're many thrilling rallies. and the
spanish players superior work at the
net brought him victory. All but very
few Of the spectators stayed for this
netch-..