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National Singles. Only 57 minutes were required by national singles champion William T. Tilden, II, to defend his title from world's singles champion William M. Johnston in a disappointing straight-set final at the Germantown Cricket Club, Philadelphia. Tilden was at top form; Johnston, beaten before he stepped onto the turf. It was Tilden's fourth successive title. Score...
...mantelpiece for another twelve months. Yet for the first two days at Forest Hills the cup was dangerously near the edge and at one point seemed about to topple off. In the first day's play Captain James O. Anderson of the Australian challengers administered to William M. Johnston his first defeat in four years of Davis Cup play. The same day William T. Tilden, II, defeated James Hawkes, Australia, and the series was evened. The following day occurred the longest and bitterest tussle ever played in Davis Cup competition. After falling badly behind, the American team (Tilden...
Davis Cup. William T. Tilden, 2nd, William M. Johnston, Vincent Richards, R. Norris Williams, 2nd, were chosen for the U. S. 1923 Davis Cup Team. These four successfully defended the cup last year, were respectively first, second, third, fourth in the 1922 national ranking. Williams was named team captain?presumably by reason of seniority. The Davis Cup matches take place at Forest Hills, L. I., Aug. 31, Sept. 1 and 3. The challenger, Australia, defeated three other teams in the American zone, then defeated France who had won from eleven others in the European zone...
Newport. The lustre of tennis week at Newport was dimmed by the absence of Champion Tilden and W. M. Johnston and by the sputter of fairer fireworks in the women's nationals at Forest Hills. The matches most talked about were the default to Vincent Richards by R. Norris Williams when within a point of victory* and the subsequent defeat of Richards by Harvey Snodgrass (latest California star) in the semifinals. Howard Kinsey dislodged Snodgrass and took the title at 6?4, 4?6, 6?0, 9?7. With his brother, Robert, Howard Kinsey also secured the doubles championship...
...Johnston eliminated early in the matches his most able competitor, Vincent Richards, of Providence. In the all-American finals he met Francis T. Hunter, of New Rochelle, N. Y., and won as he pleased...