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They were not Tilden and Johnston. They were not Borotra and Brugnon. They were much younger than that- slim high school lads in their teens. But to them the match was infinitely more important than any that was ever played at Forest Hills or Wimbledon. And they played ably- serving swiftly, slamming hard- there in a Manhattan armory, for the national junior indoor tennis championship. The larger of the two, Henry C. Johnson Jr., of Newton Academy (Waban, Mass.), was behind but wearing well, pulling up. The frail one, Horace G. Orser, of George Washington High School (Manhattan), had fatigued...
...down beneath him and selected ten players who seemed to him to reach upwards nearest to the judgment seat: 1) Vincent Richards, 2) William M. Johnston, 3) Rene La Coste, France, 4) Gerald L. Patterson, Australia, 5) Manuel Alonso, Spain, 6) Pat O'hara Wood, Australia, 7) Jean Borotra, France, 8) Howard Kinsey, 9) Henri Cochet, France, 10) Baron de Morpurgo, Italy...
...rest of the tennis world cogitated. Surely Tilden had extended some courtesies in this ranking. "De Morpurgo before Wallace Johnson? Before Colonel Kingscote of England? Patterson before Alonso, before Borotra?" Well, perhaps. Tilden had played all these men. He knew the talk. Moreover, Tilden gave reasons, and then suggested that the list was "far from accurate...
...expense of R. Norris Williams (just elected non-playing captain of the U. S. Davis Cup team), Willard Crocker (captain of the Canadian Davis Cup team), and A. H. Chapin, hardy perennial of many title matches. John Hennessey, Indianapolis "cyclone," a player with no national ranking, whipped French Jean Borotra...
Nothing startling came from the French Davis Cup players, Borotra and LaCoste. Westbrook and Snodgrass crushed them before the semifinal. William T. ("Big-Hearted Bill") Tilden II, National singles champion, played with his 1924 protege, young Sandy Weiner of Philadelphia, and got nowhere. "Little Bill" Johnston and "Peck" Griffin, 1921 champions, went down before the Australian onslaught in the semifinal...