The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-12
HUNTER DEFEATS .LACOSTE IN TITLE
 TENNIS TOURNEY
William TiIden Also Wins In National Net Singles
 Play

GERMANTOWN CRICKET CLUB, PH1LADELPHIA, Pa, Sept. H. Francis T. Hunter former Cornell tennis captain and finalist in the worlds championship tournament at Wimbledon this year. won the most sensational match of the second round of play in the national lawn tennis singles championship on the courts of the Germantown Cricket club this afternoon.
 Trailing behind Rone Lacoste, the French schoolboy, in the first set, Hunter. by a sensational rally, pulled out a victory. The scores were 1-6, 60, 6-2, 1-6, 6-3.
 Hunters victory, with it's elimina tion of the French star, reduced the field of foreigners who will enter the third round tomorrow to four players. In the twelve Americans who came through their matches today and con- tinue in the tournament, all four members of the Davis cup team are included.
 William T. Tilden I, national sin -gles champion, romped to a victory in straight sets over Cedric Major of New York; William NJ. Johnston, worlds champion, removed Jose
 
 ments; Vincent Richards of Yonkers, N. Y, won from Harvey Snodgrass of Los Angeles, and R. Norris Williams of Philadelphia advanced through default of Claude M. Butien, Mexican champion.
 The four foreigners who won their matches were B. I. c. Norton, the flashing Spaniard; Jacques Brugnon, French Davis cup player, and F. R. Leighton Crawford of England.
 Four of the 16 matches were packed with sensations. In addition to the startling victory of Hunter, the triumph of Vincent Richards over Snodgrass, who had defeated him a month ago at Newport; the ease with which Tilden dispatched his rival Major, tn 45 minutes of play, allowing him only two games, and the ruthless manner in which Manuel Alonzo put out Ian D. McInnes, youth ful Davis sup player from Australia stood out as features of the day.
 Hunter owed his victory over La coste rc his resourcefulness,g physi- cal condition and his courage in per sistlng in playing a net game in the face Of bis defeat in the fourth set.
 Richards gained sweet revenge in his match with Snodgrass for his earlier season defeat. The 1onkers youth was The Disqualification of steadiness His placements wers few, but he made the Californian run so hard that he was constantly out of position and hit into the net or out of court.
 Manuel Alonzo g victory was sen sational. Fitted against a Davis cup player from Australia, young McIn- nes, the Spaniard had all his shots working rnthlessly and cut his an- tagonist down with only two games. Alonzo's marvellous soft drop shots found McInnes deep in the court When the Australian. tried to cone to midcourt, Alonzo slashed past him for many placements.
 Tilden's triumph was the work of a master of the game. Though op- posed by a player far below his cali Der, and playing a leasurely game in the back couSt, the tall champion showed marvellous command. of his deep fore-hand shots.
 William M Johnston, Americas second ranking player, was a slow starter against Jose Alonzo of Spain, but after the first set the Californian drove with great precision and erred but seldom.
 R. I. c. Norton, champion of South Africa, won as he pleased from Philip Neer, California collegian, in three straight sets. Norton did not allow his opponent game in the first set and then eased his play to save him. self from later matches,