Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-08-05
Observation-Disclosures
BEAT THE TWO BILLS

NEW YORK, August 5.-William
Tilden and William Johnston went
down in defeat yesterday. In the
second of the Davis Cup trial matches
at Forest Hills the famous combina-
ton succumbed before the greater
brilliancy of Vincent Richards and r..
Norris Williams, I'd, after a first set
that lasted SO minutes and marked a
high spot in American doubles play.
The score was 1915. "a, 6-3, 6-3.
Each team has now won q match
and the third and deciding contest will
be played this afternoon. The out
come of this match will have an i'm
portant bearing on the selection OF
the team that will play the doubles
match in the challenge round.
Howard Kinsey, fourth in the rank
ing, was carried to five sets in a
match of three hours duration before
he was able to defeat Cranston Hol-
man of Stanford University in the sin
giles trials. The score was 81, 12-
ii, GO. Ga, 6-3.
In the other singles match John
Hennessey of Indianapolis defeated
George Lott of Chicago at Is, Is.
ST, 6-3.
For the first set of the doubles
match the play was of the same char
acter as was Mondays engagement.
only SuDoEldLlNeS can DC uSeu III ut-
scribinE the work of all four men.
One official of the United States Lawn
Tennis Association who has seen ten
mis- played all over Europe as well as
the United States declared that it was
the greatest doubles play he had ever
seen.
Johnston and Richards divided the
honors in this set. The Califor-
mans forehanderS were devastating,
and his volleying was equally effective.
Again and again it was Johnston who
put across the finishing shot for his
side after a desperate set-to IN which
all four men were playing with fury.
Seldom did his strokes find the net or
hit outside the lines, and the decep-
tiveness of his shots were fully as
impressive as his speed and control
Richards playing all season has
been so uniformly fine that II has be-
come the expected thing for him to
give a splendid account of himself
His service carried SO much pace and
was so we'll placed that Johnston and
Tilden Were barely able to touch the
ball at times. His smashing returns
of service for placements furnished
high spots in the match also and his
volleying was OF the same superb
quality as was Johnston's.
A break through Johnston was
made the first game, and Til
den and Johnston evened the score
by winning on Richards service in the
sixth Thereafter it was a duel OF
services, with 81 games following
without a break. Finally, in the
2Sth game. Tilden and Johnston broke
through Williams after deuce had
been called twice, Williams missing a
deep volley shot by an inch.
The loss of the set aroused Williams,
and for the rest of the match he was
the most spectacular SHOEMAKER on
the court. The Philadelphian's back
hand placements off service electrified
the gallery, and in one instance when
he found a narrow opening with a
back-hand drive across court from
his baseline Tilden stood with his
hands on his hips and stared at him.
So deadly menace was Williams in
returning service that the opposing
pair adopted a special formation, with
Johnston standing on the same side
of the service line as Tilden when the
later was serving in order to protect
their territory from the Philadel-
phian's devastating crossfire. At the
net, too, Williams was always a threat
with his singing volleyings angled
sharply to the side lines.
Tilden did not play with the same
keenneSS in the closing stages that
he did in the first set and was guilty
of a large number of errors. These
offset the good playing of Johnston,
and Richards and Williams, playing
at top speed to the end, clearly had
the edge over their opponents in the
three last sets.