Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-08-22

Continued frem Sporting oass)
Australians and
Kinsey Brothers
Win i'm Title Tennis

BrooEline. Mass, Aug. 21.-Aus-
tralia's tennis team of Gerald Pat
terson and Pat O'Hara Wood,
team Of spirit, stamina and skill that
would not say die, when defeat
seemed imminent, and the brother
combination of Robert G. kinsey
and Howard o. kinsey from the
Pacific coast, who conquered the
Olympic champions, came out VIC
tors today in the semi-tinal round
OF the national doubles champion
ship tournament. 1t took FIVE sets
for each to assert themselves in
matches that were worthy of the
title play.
Little Bill" Johnston and his
partner Clarence J. Griffin, three
times winner of this championship,
went down before Australia's daunt-
less representatives. They had won
the first two sets, 81, ga, and car
ried third to Ave all with Patter-
son a bit unsteady but were swept
away fighting all the time by the
pounding placements and service
aces that doomed off the same Pat
terson's racquet to make an Aus
tralian victory in the last three sets,
81, 6-S, As.
The kinseys came into their hon.
ors as flnalists by turning back the
champions of the Olympiad and Of
Wimbledon, Vincent Richards and
II. Hunter OF New York, ga, 1;6. 4;6,
60, 6;3. Theirs was an exposition
of team play, of shots that scored
from the lobbing exchanges that
they forced as defensive strategy, of
kills that came because they were
everlastingly on the job of playing
to opponents weakness. This weak
ness was found in Hunter, and while
Richards was brilliant In defeat,
Hunter lost patience with his errors
that came from trying too hard and
in the end stepped in the. way Of a
ball from his opponents racket and
at times thereafter almost stagger-
cd.
Miss Helen Wills, seeking with
Richards as partner, to add this title
to@the many she has gained this year.
defeated in straight sets the interna-
tional combination Of Miss Edith
Sigourney of Boston and jacques
Brugnon, star doubles PLACER Of
France. The scores were 6-1, 6-4.
Mrs. Molla Bjustedt Mallory and w.
T. Tilden, End, playing through cham
pions on another court, had more
difficulty in eliminating Mrs. b. E.
Cole. End, of North Andover, and r.
E. Schlesinger Of Australia, SIS, 0-6,
GA. IS. G. w. Wightman OF Boston
and Jean Borotra of Frances advanc-
ed to meet them in the semi-finals by
a victory over Miss Katherine Por-
ter Of Boston and G. B. Lott, Jr., Of
Chicago, 7-5, 4-6, 6-3, and Miss
Eleanor Goss of Americas olympic
team with Rene Lacoste of France,
became semi-final opponents of Miss
Wills md Richards by defeating Mrs.
Marion z. Jessup Of Wilmington. Del,
and r. Lindley Murray Of Niagara
Falls, N. Y, 6-3. S-6.
The five set struggle between the
Australians and the former national
champions was in fact more nearly a
five set struggle between the power
full Gerald Patterson, and Little BIZ
Johnston. Patterson's partner, Pat
O'Hara Wood, carried much Of the
burden during the early sets when
Patterson's shots were going awry,
and throughout the match contribut-
ed the scoring shots at the net which
have made him one Of the worlds
greatest doubles players of all time.
Griffin only at times was a factor
of zeal importance in the game, scor-
ing not single point in the third
set, and in the five sets scoring only
IL. Yet these icluded finishing strokes
of tennis artistry. in keeping with the
high standard OF play.
The Australians and the Kinsey
brothers will not meet in the final UNI
til Saturday. The semi-finals of the
mixed doubles will be played tomor-
row. and at the same time little
Helen Jacobs Of Berkeley, Calf, lat
est of long line of young women
stars from California, will face n
grandstand crowd in the final of the
women's invitation tournament with
Miss Eleanor Goss, who ranks num-
Der four among women Of the coun-
try.