Word: johnstons
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...penny is sustained by the fact that it frequently proves untrue. For instance, conservative students of tennis fully expected William T. Tilden to win the National Tennis Championship which was decided last week at Forest Hills. Perceiving a balance draw, with Tilden and Williams in one half, and William Johnston and Richards in the other, they expected that these four players would move smoothly through to the semifinals; they expected that the dashing foreigners-Borotra of France, Alonzo of Spain, Anderson of Australia-would fall by the wayside; that William Johnston would...
Play began. After the conventional eliminations of the first and second rounds, Williams crushed Borotra, and William Johnston, not without dust and heat, defeated Manuel Alonzo, the Flower of Spain. In that round Wallace Johnson came to his first test. He was bracketed against James Anderson, Captain of the Australian Davis Cup Team...
Acting Secretary of War Dwight F. Davis and some 10,000 unofficial persons, wrung and tortured by the intensity of the spectacle they had witnessed, were heartened by seeing William Johnston, a weaker player than Tilden, walk over Borotra, an abler player than Lacoste, with the loss of only five games in three sets. Lacoste's inferiority to his teammate was further exhibited in the doubles next day. Borotra, quick at getting to the net, was not so quick as either Richards or Williams but, once there, he was forced to oppose sniping by himself, for little Lacoste was nowhere...
...Kinsey brothers, defending titleholders, bowed in straight sets to the superior daring of Vincent Richards and R. Norris Williams. Next day a cloud of witnesses saw these two put out Johnston and Griffin, 6-2, 8-10, 6-4, 11-9, in the semifinal, to face, Gerald Patterson and John Hawkes of Australia...
Champion William Tilden gave a lesson to his partner, 17-year old "Sandy" Weiner. Griffin and Johnston profited by the lesson, took the match...